[CPEO-BIF] Safeway site, Cheyenne, Wyoming

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Downtown Safeway closing

By Michelle Dynes
Wyoming News
February 4, 2010

CHEYENNE - Safeway is set to close its 50-year-old grocery store on 
Pioneer Avenue at the end of the month.

The Safeway chain sold the store and its property in the 2500 block of 
Thomes Avenue to the state of Wyoming for $2.6 million, state 
construction manager Rich Cathcart said.

...

Cathcart added that the state also plans to address the contamination on 
the site. The Safeway chain bought the Thomes Avenue property more than 
half a decade ago to replace the Pioneer Avenue grocery with a larger 
neighborhood store. But soil and groundwater contamination was 
discovered beneath the property and interrupted plans to expand.

The mix of chemicals may be the result of dry cleaning businesses and 
auto repair shops that once stood on the same lots, according to the 
Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2010/02/05/news/19local_02-05-10.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
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