[CPEO-BIF] Remington Rand site, Middletown, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Remington Rand site plan on deck


By Jason Siedzik
Middletown Press (CT)
February 15, 2011

MIDDLETOWN - Having already concocted a plan for the former Remington 
Rand site, the city of Middletown has secured grants to perform some of 
the necessary remediation.

...

The plan to remediate the complex, available on the department's site, 
calls for a series of steps, including removing storage tanks, 
contaminated soil and asbestos. The project will begin May 15 and is 
scheduled to conclude precisely six months later.

The former Remington Rand complex - the company had made typewriters and 
computers, but the factory was closed in the 1970's - is part of an 
ongoing turnaround. City-owned since 1999, Middletown had nearly sold 
the complex, composed of three buildings spread over just under 10.5 
acres and totaling 188,950 square feet of space, to Wallingford-based 
TWB Properties. The deal fell apart due to contamination at the site, 
though. In that time, the town has rented out the space, recently 
striking an agreement with API Construction, one of the contractors 
working on the Kleen Energy plant, in December 2009.


...

For the entire article, see
http://middletownpress.com/articles/2011/02/15/news/doc4d5a03528bf1c819576408.txt

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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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