[CPEO-BIF] State office building, Owensboro, Kentucky

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Owensboro discussing alternative plans for downtown hotel

By Ben Garbarek
WFIE TV-14 News
March 24, 2010

OWENSBORO, KY - There is a possible road bump in Owensboro's efforts to 
redevelop downtown.

As 14 News told you Tuesday night, Owensboro's mayor and city 
commissioners will hold a closed door meeting Thursday to discuss 
possible soil contamination at the site of the future downtown hotel.

The city of Owensboro has been negotiating with the state to buy the 
state office building.

While doing its homework on the site, the city found the soil was 
contaminated and the price to clean it up could kill the deal.

...

The city said it expected some chemicals from a nearby dry cleaners to 
contaminate the soil at the state office building site, but the price to 
clean the soil came back higher than expected at over $.5 million.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=12198851

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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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