[CPEO-BIF] FedEx Ground at Troutdale Reynolds Industrial Park, Oregon

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Press Release
FedEx
April 15, 2010

FedEx Ground Receives Award for Development of Once Contaminated Property
New Package Sorting Hub Will Be First Business Operating at Former 
Smelter Site

PITTSBURGH, Apr 15, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- FedEx Ground, the 
small-package ground unit of FedEx Corp., has been awarded an Oregon 
Brownfield Award for the work done in transforming a former brownfield 
site in Troutdale, Ore. into a $129 million state-of-the-art package 
sortation hub set to open in the late summer.

The third annual award was presented on April 6 at the 2010 Oregon 
Brownfields Conference sponsored by Business Oregon and the Oregon 
Department of Environmental Quality.

The new FedEx Ground hub is located on 78 acres within the Port of 
Portland's 693 acre Troutdale Reynolds Industrial Park that was once the 
home of a Reynolds Metals aluminum smelter. The first occupant in the 
industrial park, FedEx Ground is returning a once contaminated parcel to 
productive use.

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For the entire release, see
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fedex-ground-receives-award-for-development-of-once-contaminated-property-2010-04-15?reflink=MW_news_stmp

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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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