[CPEO-BIF] Block 46, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

North Wilkesboro vision emerges

By Monte Mitchell
WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL (NC)
March 4, 2010

A jackhammer echoed through North Wilkesboro yesterday, taking down the 
town-owned parking deck and signaling the beginning of changes expected 
to transform the southern edge of downtown.

Town officials envision new roads, a new fire station and maybe even a 
new music venue downtown. They are getting ready to get started on a 
28-acre redevelopment project that has been dubbed "Block 46" because 
when the town was incorporated, the area was in Block 46 on the map.

...


Shepherd Real Estate has the property under contract for purchase 
provided that the state approves a brownfield agreement. A brownfield is 
an abandoned or idled property where concerns about possible 
environmental contamination hinder redevelopment. A brownfield agreement 
with the state would list things that should be done to clean up the 
property so it could be redeveloped.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/mar/04/north-wilkesboro-vision-emerges/news-regional/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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