[CPEO-BIF] Michigan incentives

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Public and private entities discuss future of redevelopment projects


By Olivia Pulsinelli
Business Review West Michigan
March 10, 2011


Attorney John Byl has worked on about 150 brownfield projects over  
the past decade. Now, he and many others hope similar redevelopment  
projects can continue in the future.

"The brownfield incentives, in my view, have been instrumental to  
really foster the urban development of brownfield and functionally  
obsolete and blighted sites across the state," Byl, a partner at  
Warner, Norcross and Judd, said during the "Creative Brownfield  
Projects" panel discussion at last week's International Council of  
Shopping Centers West Michigan Alliance Program.

Whether they were representing municipalities, economic developers or  
private developers, attendees and presenters at the ninth annual  
event - which focuses on development through public-private  
partnerships - were united in their concern about the possible  
changes to Michigan's redevelopment incentives.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2011/03/ 
potential_changes_to_instrumen.html


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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