[CPEO-BIF] Martin Luther King Jr. school, Trenton, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New King school opens

Meir Rinde
Trenton Times (NJ)
March 04, 2010

TRENTON -- Delighted community members toured the halls of the new 
Martin Luther King Jr. school yesterday, amazed that the campus was 
finally completed after a tortured five-year process that cost $76 
million and saw the partly finished building torn down and reconstructed 
because of soil contamination.

"This has been a long time coming," state Sen. Shirley Turner, D-Ewing, 
told students, parents, district staffers, city officials and residents 
who gathered for an opening ceremony under the new gymnasium's soaring roof.

"I don't know of another school that took five years to complete. But 
the most important thing is, it is complete. And not only is it 
complete, it is beautiful," Turner said. "The most important aspect of 
this building is that it is safe for our children. And that is why it 
took us so long to get where we are today."

Originally budgeted at $28 million, the construction of the new campus 
on Brunswick Avenue was halted in 2005 after low levels of petroleum 
products and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were discovered in fill 
that had been brought to the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-19/126768513023550.xml&coll=5

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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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