[CPEO-BIF] "Plaza Properties returns cleanup money for casino site, " Columbus, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plaza Properties returns cleanup money for casino site

By Eric Lyttle
Columbus Other Paper (OH)
January 26, 2010

Plaza Properties, the Columbus developer that sold Penn National 
property in the Arena District for a proposed casino, sent a check to 
Mayor Mike Coleman Tuesday for $98,873.

The money had been issued to Plaza last year as reimbursement for work 
completed as part of a $750,000 brownfield cleanup grant from the 
state's Clean Ohio fund. The city had applied for the grant on behalf of 
Plaza Properties with the understanding that Plaza would develop a 
residential/retail complex on the former Jaeger Machine Company site at 
the west end of Nationwide Boulevard.

But when Penn National approached Plaza last March about purchasing an 
option on the site for the development of a casino, Plaza agreed. Penn 
exercised its option on the site Jan. 16.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theotherpaper.com/articles/2010/01/26/front/doc4b5f3f48e4fe5842354457.txt

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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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