[CPEO-BIF] Thompson & Co. Cigar Factory, Bartow, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Historic site: Bartow cigar factory might not go up in smoke

By PHIL ATTINGER
News Chief (FL)
November 4, 2010

BARTOW - The Thompson & Co. Cigar Factory may have its chance to live again.

The Polk County Commission voted Wednesday to give the city of Bartow 
180 days to do assessments to determine what sort of environmental 
cleanup the site will need.

If the city can do preliminary assessments by that time, then the county 
will convey the entire site - the building and the land - to the city.

If not, Assistant County Manager Jim Freeman said, the county has a 
demolition permit and could go ahead and tear the building down.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newschief.com/article/20101104/NEWS/11045010/1003/NEWS?Title=Historic-site-Bartow-cigar-factory-might-not-go-up-in-smoke

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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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