[CPEO-BIF] The National Aquarium and the Patapsco River waterfront, Baltimore, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

National Aquarium Reclaims Contaminated Baltimore City Waterfront


Citybizlist Real Estate (MD)
May 11 (?), 2010

National Aquarium leaders, joined by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the 
Environmental Protection Agency, partners and members of the business 
community, unveiled plans for a publically-accessible waterfront park on 
its property on the Patapsco River. The once contaminated and underused 
property has been reclaimed through brownfield remediation work and is 
being transformed into an asset for the community and the environment.
When purchased in 2007, the 12.5 acre development site at 101 W. Dickman 
Street was recognized as a brownfield site, created by filling a shallow 
flat in the river with construction and demolition debris from various 
projects around the city including the construction of Interstate 95. 
The remediation work was the first of a phased development process 
slated for the property.

"Just over two years ago, we stood in this same spot to present the 
National Aquarium with a $200,000 EPA Brownfields check," said EPA 
Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. "Here we are today with our 
partners recognizing that this site -- instead of languishing as a 
polluted, empty lot -- will now become part of a growing economy and a 
true asset for the community."

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For the entire article, see
http://baltimorerealestate.citybizlist.com/yourcitybiznews/detail.aspx?id=77509

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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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