[CPEO-BIF] Uniroyal factory site, east riverfront, Detroit, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Uniroyal factory cleanup at hand

Mayor hails plan as historic for Detroit

BY JOHN GALLAGHER
Detroit Free Press (MI)
September 11, 2010

Like the vacant Michigan Central Station, for years, the Uniroyal 
factory site on Detroit's east riverfront has symbolized the city's 
inability to recover from decades of abandonment.

But that symbol may be coming to an end.

Detroit's Brownfield Redevelopment Authority this week approved 
agreements with three corporations for $15 million-$20 million to clean 
up the western half of the 40-acre site. Cleanup agreements also are 
expected soon for the eastern portion.

A cleanup of the old industrial site would allow the extension of the 
Detroit RiverWalk to the MacArthur Bridge to Belle Isle.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.freep.com/article/20100911/BUSINESS04/9110387/Uniroyal-factory-cleanup-at-hand

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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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