2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:01:45 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Zidell to redevelop Portland, Oregon waterfront
 
Zidell plans waterfront development

by Eli Segall
Daily Journal of Commerce - Oregon
December 22, 2009


Zidell, the Portland maritime firm, says it wants to turn its industrial property along the Willamette River into a "spectacular mixed-use" development, though most of the land must undergo a state-required environmental cleanup.

The property runs along the west bank of the Willamette, from the Marquam Bridge to just south of the Ross Island Bridge. Zidell submitted a permit application last week to remediate 18 acres of it, and says the work will cost $20 million.

The main contaminant there is PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, "a known cancer causing agent," said Keith Johnson, cleanup program manager for the state Department of Environmental Quality.

...

For the entire article, see
http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/12/22/zidell-plans-waterfront-development-after-cleanup/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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