[CPEO-BIF] Muncie, Indiana, former Chevrolet plant

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials are seeking ideas on what Muncie Chevrolet plant's former site 
might be used for

By KEITH ROYSDON
Muncie Star Press (IN)
January 16, 2011



The 70-acre site that was once home to Muncie's Chevrolet plant sits, 
bare and quiet and cold, just west of downtown.

Since the plant -- which employed thousands in its heyday but only a few 
hundred at the end -- closed in spring 2006, the buildings have been 
swept away by General Motors-hired demolition crews. A high fence rings 
the plant property.

...

"This site shaped Muncie for the last 100 years," Bookout said. "Now is 
our opportunity to use the site to help shape Muncie for the next 100 
years."

Before that kind of change can happen, however, the former Chevy site is 
likely to undergo millions of dollars in brownfields remediation for 
possible contamination from the auto parts manufacturing operations at 
the location since 1935.



...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20110116/BUSINESS/101160368/Officials-are-seeking-ideas-on-what-Muncie-Chevrolet-plant-s-former-site-might-be-used-for

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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