[CPEO-BIF] St. Paul, Minnesota Ford plant site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Task force meeting to discuss future of St. Paul Ford plant site

by Laura Yuen,
Minnesota Public Radio (MN)
May 2, 2011

St. Paul, Minn. - A citizen task force in charge of guiding the  
redevelopment of the Ford plant in St. Paul will meet Monday night to  
discuss how sustainable the site should be.

The group will hear from a team of consultants and city officials who  
worked on a report offering strategies to reduce water consumption,  
energy, and storm water runoff. The report also recommends including  
open space and bike paths in the development.

"We're just encouraging the city and the developers to look at all of  
the sustainable metrics, or ways of measuring performance in  
buildings and communities, and create a more sustainable model," said  
Architect Loren Abraham, who served on the so-called "green team" of  
consultants that worked on the report.

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For the entire article, see
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/05/02/ford-plant/

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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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