From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:17:55 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Zion Church, Portsmouth, Virginia |
Land swap would pave way for Zion's rebirth from ashes By Dave Forster The Virginian-Pilot February 1, 2010PORTSMOUTH - The city and a church are close to a land-swap deal that would give a new home to a congregation displaced by fire, find a use for a former Superfund site and open a prime piece of downtown to redevelopment. Under the proposal, the city would get the vacant lot near the corner of High and Green streets where Zion Baptist Church stood before a fire destroyed it in December 2007. In exchange, the church would take ownership of land about a mile away, south on Effingham Street near the fire station, to build its new church. The property is near where the former Washington Park housing complex once stood and has been cleaned under the federal Superfund program that addresses hazardous waste sites. ...The new location on Effingham is part of land that had to undergo a cleanup because of lead contamination from an old brass and bronze foundry. Because of that history, the city could not build housing there. ... For the entire article, see http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/land-swap-would-pave-way-zions-rebirth -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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