[CPEO-BIF] Centerville district mixed-use project, Fremont, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New contamination issue further delays Fremont project

Divided council chooses to move forward with housing and retail in 
Centerville district

Matthew Artz
Oakland Tribune (CA)
January 27, 2011

FREMONT -- Council members aren't throwing in the towel on a 
star-crossed housing and retail project in the Centerville district 
despite the recent discovery of more soil contamination on the site.
The council voted 4-1 on Tuesday to continue exclusively negotiating 
with developer Blake Hunt Ventures, which has proposed nearly 200 
apartments and about 14 shops on a 6.6-acre site fronting Fremont 
Boulevard between Thornton Avenue and Bonde Way.

Negotiations stalled last year when soil vapor contaminates were found 
on the site, likely caused by a former dry-cleaning business, city 
officials said.

Fremont spent about $13 million to purchase the land and remove 
contaminates roughly a decade ago, years before the soil vapors were 
included among contaminates for which testing was required.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_17206973

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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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