[CPEO-BIF] Griffin Pipe plant, Florence, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New life for old pipe plant?

By: ED MOORHOUSE
Burlington County Times (PA)
January 24, 2010

FLORENCE - A sign indicates where the Griffin Pipe plant is on West 
Front Street, but as one township official said last week, the site is 
"a shell of what it was."

The future of that shell was discussed at a recent Township Council 
meeting and officials are moving forward with studying redevelopment 
opportunities at the 200-year-old foundry that ceased production 13 
months ago.

"Rather than see it sit there, we want to empower Griffin to redevelop 
it or sell it," Township Administrator Richard Brook said last week. "We 
want to create incentive for them."

On Wednesday the council approved a resolution that authorizes a 
preliminary redevelopment study of the 160-acre site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/26/2010/january/24/new-life-for-old-pipe-plant/print.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
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