[CPEO-BIF] Eastgate Shopping Plaza, Niles Township, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Demolition imminent for Eastgate Shopping Plaza in Niles Township
Board approval of brownfield plan clears way for plaza's demise

By LOU MUMFORD
South Bend Tribune (IN)
November 15, 2010

NILES — Within a year, and perhaps as soon as a few weeks, the eyesore 
that's the Eastgate Shopping Plaza will be no more.

That was the word Monday night after the Niles Township Board formally 
approved the Berrien County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority's 
brownfield plan for the property. The panel's OK clears the way for ML 
Developers, which earlier this year bought the roughly 52-acre parcel on 
Oak Street, to hire a contractor for long-awaited demolition of the once 
bustling strip mall.

Nearly half of the 20-year brownfield plan's $319,295 cost is tied to 
demolition ($90,000) and lead and asbestos abatement ($61,500). However, 
Brownfield Authority representative Dan Fette told the board the cost 
for the latter would have been as much as three times higher had ML 
Developers not taken steps to mitigate the abatement.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20101115/News01/101119671/-1/googleNews

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