[CPEO-BIF] National City, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

National City Launches A Major Makeover


BY KENNY GOLDBERG
KPBS Radio (San Diego, CA)
May 28, 2010

SAN DIEGO - National City has dozens of abandoned or underused 
industrial sites. Some of these "brownfields" are contaminated. Thanks 
to federal and state grants, National City is transforming one 
brownfield in the heart of old town. The city has high hopes for this 
project.

In National City, just east of the 5 freeway, there's a 14-acre parcel 
of land that looks like it's seen better days.

...

Patricia Beard is National City's redevelopment manager. She admits the 
entire 14-acre site isn't much to look at. But just wait a few years.

"It's gonna be a beautifully designed affordable housing about four 
stories tall, and the creek will be completely restored," says Beard, 
excitedly. "They'll be open spaces and park areas, and we're trying to 
fit into this project a community garden, as well."

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/may/28/national-city-launches-major-make-over/

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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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