[CPEO-BIF] Transit village, Somerville, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Former dump is planned site for downtown transit village in Somerville

By Mike Frassinelli
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
November 15, 2009

Refrigerators and bodies of cars are buried underground. The occasional 
copperhead snake slithers above ground. And dead trees have been ground 
into woodchips.

It doesn't seem like much right now, but Colin Driver looks at the 
closed former town dump and sees the future of Somerville.

Economic Development Director Colin Driver walks on a closed former 
landfill near the Somerville train station. The landfill was just 
approved as a brownfield area and is one day expected to be the site of 
a transit village that could be the most significant project in decades 
in the town that bills itself as "Somerset County's downtown."

The property is the planned site for a transit village, a mixture of 
residences and retail stores that would be built around Somerville's 
historic train station, which is undergoing a major facelift of its own.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/11/former_dump_is_planned_site_fo.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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