From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:46:47 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] People's Food Co-op, Kalamazoo, Michigan |
People's Co-Op Moves To Expand By Jonathan Kleyer Kalamazoo Weekly Shopper March 4(?), 2010The People's Food Co-op, a 40 year old Kalamazoo business that prides itself on buying locally-grown, "natural" food, has announced that it will be constructing a new building to expand into. Currently, the customer-owned co-op operates in a 784 square foot store on South Burdick Street. The co-op is finalizing an agreement with the city to buy a vacant lot at 507 Harrison Street. According to Chris Dilly, the co-op's general manager, the lot is a Brownfield site that had been contaminated by the paper industry and cleaned up by the city. ... For the entire article, see http://www.kalamazooweekly.com/articles.php?id=500 -- 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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