[CPEO-BIF] Downtown Lansing (MI) and Project Labor Agreements

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Downtown Development at Standstill After Council Blocks Tax Incentives
Plans to build apartments near the new Lansing Marketplace are on hold 
after the City Council last night voted against incentives to help 
finance the project.


Sherene Tagharobi
WILX TV-10 News (Lansing, MI)
October 12, 2010
	

The Brownfields Tax Incentive encourages and funds cleanup and reuse of 
contaminated sites. That's what local developer Pat Gillespie of the 
Gillespie Group is trying to take advantage of to build "about 180 
residential units, which would mean about 300 people to Downtown 
Lansing," he said.

But after a heated debate over Project Labor Agreements (PLA's), four 
councilmembers voted against the incentives Monday night. A PLA would 
require all workers to be paid union wages and benefits. But Gillespie 
says that's unreasonable for residential projects like his Marketplace.

He says it would limit his workforce because there aren't many 
contractors that do residential projects interested in working under a PLA.


...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/Downtown_Development_at_Standstill_After_Council_Blocks_Tax_Incentives_104818279.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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