[CPEO-BIF] Nicolet property, Norristown, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A deal in the works
In an effort to relocate wastewater plant, authority offers $3.7 million 
for properties

By CARL ROTENBERG
Norristown Times Herald Staff (PA)
March 21, 2010

NORRISTOWN - A state H2O grant awarded last year to help construct a new 
wastewater treatment plant in Norristown will now be used to purchase 
nearly 12 acres on the waterfront for the treatment plant.

...

A multi-alarm fire in April 2009 at the Nicolet building was ruled 
"accidental" by Norristown Fire Marshall Charles Sweeney. Three homeless 
men had been living on the second level of an office structure within 
the building for more than a year and were allegedly habitual alcohol 
drinkers and cigarette smokers, Sweeney said.

The Nicolet property, used since the early 1900s to make pipe and boiler 
insulation and commercial grade asbestos paper, was purchased by O'Neill 
for $55,500 in December 2001 as a potential Brownfield development site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesherald.com/articles/2010/03/21/news/doc4ba6c0cdca091797295232.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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