[CPEO-BIF] Edgewater Redevelopment Area, Edgewater, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Edgewater sets up redevelopment area

By KELLY CUCULIANSKY
Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL)
May 20, 2010

EDGEWATER -- There's a new era for a Southeast Volusia city trying to 
diversify and improve its tax base.

The ERA -- or Edgewater Redevelopment Area -- got the official stamp of 
approval from the City Council this week. More than 700 parcels are part 
of the map designated for redevelopment and rehabilitation of abandoned 
or under-used commercial and industrial spaces.

Spanning U.S. 1 from 10th Street to State Road 442, the ParkTowne 
Industrial Center and land along Park Avenue, the properties make up a 
brownfield, an area targeted for economic revitalization. But don't call 
it the b-word.

While some still think of brownfields as polluted sites and abandoned or 
dilapidated factories, being part of one doesn't mean there is 
contamination. And it's that stigma that caused property owners to seek 
a different title.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/southeast-volusia/2010/05/20/edgewater-sets-up-redevelopment-area.html

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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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