2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:02:07 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Eastgate Shopping Plaza, Niles Township, Indiana
 
Niles' Eastgate Shopping Plaza closer to demolition
Board approves plan leading to elimination of former shopping plaza.


By TOM MOOR
South Bend Tribune (IN)
November 5, 2010

ST. JOSEPH -- Once considered the place to shop for Niles-area residents, the Eastgate Shopping Plaza is just a shell of its former self, sitting vacant and dilapidated.

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Good news does appear to be on the way. The Berrien County Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved a Berrien County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority Brownfield Plan that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the former shopping center in Niles Township just east of the city limits. The site could eventually make way for the birth of new development there. The Brownfield Plan will essentially allow ML Developers Inc., the company that earlier this year bought the 52-acre site on Oak Street, to use tax increment financing from local property taxes for activities at the property.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20101105/News01/11050345/1130

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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