[CPEO-BIF] Somerville, New Jersey landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Somerville signs agreement to develop 160-acre landfill

By Stephen Stirling
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
January 17, 2010


SOMERVILLE -- Progress has been made in Somerville's efforts to 
redevelop its 160-acre landfill, a sign officials hope indicates that 
the economic freeze gripping development in the borough is beginning to 
thaw.

Somerville signed a memorandum of agreement last week with the Somerset 
County Business Partnership to explore the possibility of turning a 
portion of the landfill, which closed in 1984 and covers a large area 
from Bridge Street to Route 206, into a center for life sciences and 
emerging technologies.

"It's taking a positive step towards redevelopment in an economy that is 
otherwise pretty ratty," Somerville's Economic Development Director 
Colin Driver said. "It's a bellwether in a sense to what's going on out 
there."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/01/somerville_signs_agreement_to.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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