[CPEO-BIF] Rahway, New Jersey arts development

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Rahway hopes brownfields money will kickstart new arts development

By Eliot Caroom
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
November 1, 2009

RAHWAY -- In Rahway, where an ambitious development agenda was slowed by 
the recession, city officials say new state money for environmental 
cleanups could jump-start nine downtown projects.

When the state designated properties in six municipalities as new 
brownfield development areas, Rahway was on the list, one of 31 towns 
throughout the state eligible for $5 million each year for cleanups. The 
goal of the program, beyond remediating polluted ground, is to 
revitalize communities.

The brownfield designations in Rahway cover nine downtown sites along 
the Rahway River, including land that was at various times home to a 
factory for Wheatena Cereal, a welding business and a gas station. 
Another site had served as an auto garage and an industrial dry-cleaning 
business.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/11/rahway_hopes_brownfields_money.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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