[CPEO-BIF] Oakes Pond Redevelopment Area, Bloomfield, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oakes Pond development dogged by environmental questions

BY JEFF FRANKEL
Bloomfield Life (NJ)
September 9, 2010

There may be more than meets the eye at the site of a dilapidated 
industrial complex alongside the Garden State Parkway.

For the proposed 156-unit, $40 million project at the Oakes Pond 
Redevelopment Area to begin construction, the township and the developer 
may have to battle environmentalists over residents living on 
potentially dangerous land.

Situated off Belleville Avenue, the 10-arce site hosts contamination and 
sits on a floodplain.

On top of that, Mayor Raymond McCarthy has already expressed his desire 
to give the developer, Garden Commercial Properties of Short Hills, a 
30-year tax break.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/realestate/102509639_Contamination_at_site_could_date_back_to_1830s.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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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