[CPEO-BIF] PRC-DeSoto site, Glendale, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City eyes Target land
Officials consider buying south Glendale plot for parkland, but site 
comes with risks.

By Melanie Hicken
Glendale News Press (CA)
February 22, 2010

CITY HALL - City officials are in negotiations with Target to buy a 
9.5-acre south Glendale property that environmental officials say is a 
major contributor to chromium 6 groundwater contamination.

The property at 5426 San Fernando Road - which county records show 
Target bought for nearly $22 million in 2006 - is the former site of 
aerospace company PRC-DeSoto. The site is within the federal 
Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund area.

Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Board and EPA officials are 
coordinating the area's cleanup.

City Councilman and Redevelopment Agency Chairman John Drayman on Monday 
confirmed the negotiations, which were listed on the City Council's 
closed-session agenda. Drayman said he would advocate for the land to be 
used as a park, adding that he was not at liberty to discuss the 
negotiations.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.glendalenewspress.com/articles/2010/02/23/politics/gnp-negotiations022310.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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