[CPEO-BIF] BASF/American Enka mill property. Buncombe County, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BASF/American Enka property plan clears hurdle for new development

By Joel Burgess
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
November 10, 2010


A massive brick clock tower off Smoky Park Highway is all that remains 
of American Enka, one of Buncombe County's premier 20th-century 
manufacturers.

Now the remnants of that textile plant, which once employed up to 6,000 
people, could again help change the culture and economy of the county's 
western end.

Developers want to transform nearly 200 acres around the old 
BASF/American Enka property - including a formerly polluted 
"brownfields" site - into a commercial center with a greenway and sports 
fields.

...

"I just want to thank you all for taking on a project that involves 
cleaning up a brownfield site. Because I don't think there are many 
developers that want to take on that kind of site in this economy," 
Councilwoman Esther Manheimer said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20101110/NEWS/311100041/1009

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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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