[CPEO-BIF] Zidell to redevelop Portland, Oregon waterfront

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
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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