[CPEO-BIF] Bay Line Railroad Depot, Panama City, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City designates old depot a brownfield site

ALI HELGOTH, Panama City News Herald
Walton Sun (FL)
February 22, 2011
PANAMA CITY — Declaring a piece of property a brownfield site could  
come with a stigma, but the city hopes it also comes with enough  
incentives to make the old train depot property more marketable.

Tuesday, city commissioners voted to designate the old train depot  
property on Sixth Street a brownfield site.

City Attorney Rowlette Bryant said the brownfield designation - which  
is applied to property where expansion, redevelopment or reuse is  
complicated by actual or perceived contamination - gives property  
owners access to credits to build.

In 2007 the Bay Line Railroad Depot was being torn down when it was  
destroyed by fire. Plans at that time called for developing the site  
and land around it with a mix of residential and commercial areas.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.waltonsun.com/news/city-91181-newsherald-old-panama.html

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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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