[CPEO-BIF] Whole Foods property, Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Call it Hole Foods! Grocer will clean toxic site, but may not build store

By Stephen Brown
The Brooklyn Paper (NY)
January 5, 2010

The proposed site of a Whole Foods store along the Gowanus Canal may 
remain nothing more than a hole, but at least it will be a 
decontaminated one.

State officials announced late last month that a clean-up of the toxic 
site at Third Avenue and Third Street will commence on Jan. 11 and is 
expected to take three months = though it is uncertain whether the 
organic (and some say overpriced) grocery store will ever be built.
Brooklyn Bridge Realty

"There hasn't been any determination when = or if = we will open a 
store," said Whole Foods spokesman Michael Sinatra. "We're focused on 
the present, the clean-up of the property. Then we'll take it from there 
and identify what we'll do next."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/2/33_02_sb_whole_foods.html?comm=1

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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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