[CPEO-BIF] East Village housing development, Lansing, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Supporting East Village
A host of incentives for completing the East Village housing  
development on tap tonight

by Andy Balaskovitz
Lansing City Pulse (MI)
February 28,2011

The Lansing City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on five  
different incentives that will give the developer of East Village a  
boost to complete the project.

The Council is scheduled to vote first on an amended brownfield  
redevelopment plan for the residential development on Saginaw Street  
between Marshall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue on Lansing’s east side.

The 14-year brownfield plan reimburses the developer, Allen Edwin  
Homes, the costs of cleaning up contamination on the property by  
capturing increases in property tax revenues. Those costs are  
estimated at $513,365.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/article-5542-supporting-east- 
village.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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