From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:45:12 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Aspen Place at The Sawmill, Flagstaff, Arizona |
Contamination stalls lot sales JOE FERGUSON Arizona Sun November 5, 2010Another wrinkle has emerged in the failed Aspen Place at The Sawmill project off Lone Tree Road. The city of Flagstaff has postponed indefinitely the sale of roughly 20 acres containing hundreds of residential building lots after preliminary tests found chemical contamination that previous owners supposedly had cleaned up. The delay essentially gives the city little recourse but to use taxpayer funds to pay a $475,000 bond assessment due in December. Soil samples on each of the nine city-owned parcels known as Sawmill South showed dangerous volatile organic compounds throughout the site, which was the former Stone Forest Lumber Mill before being converted to a combination retail and housing development. ... For the entire article, see http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/article_296767f9-8f24-5ab2-846c-0cb025603238.html -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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