[CPEO-BIF] Next Alternatives Battery plant, Battle Creek, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City OKs incentives for Elm Street project
Battle Creek hopes to lure more than 100 jobs

Barrett Newkirk
Battle Creek Enquirer (MI)
February 2, 2011


The city of Battle Creek has approved a plan to encourage a company to 
bring more than 100 jobs to the city.

The City Commission on Tuesday approved a new brownfield development 
plan for a site at Elm Street and East Michigan Avenue southeast of 
downtown for Next Alternatives Inc.

The Arizona-based company wants to create about 117 jobs at the Battle 
Creek site. The workers would assist in the production of lithium-ion 
battery packs used in electric vehicles.

The Elm Street site has served as a lumber yard, sign shop and oil 
storage site. An environmental assessment determined the property was 
not suitable for residential use. It is, however, eligible for a 
brownfield tax credit.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20110202/NEWS01/102020306/City-OKs-incentives-for-Elm-Street-project

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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
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