[CPEO-BIF] Plastech Engineering Products, Elwood, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This article serves as a reminder that the auto industry brownfields  
sector is bigger than the bankrupt remnants of GM and Chrysler. - LS]

Award to help assess former Elwood factory
Officials hope it leads to new jobs, influx of funds

By Abbey Doyle
Anderson Herald Bulletin (IN)
May 11, 2011

ELWOOD, Ind. - Elwood officials are hopeful a recent award will be  
the first step in restoring the former Plastech Engineering Products  
site to a place to employ residents and increase the communityâs tax  
base.



The Madison County Corporation for Economic Development (CED)  
received an Auto Sector Brownfields Assessment Initiative award of  
$38,829 from the Indiana Brownfields Program (IBP) to facilitate  
brownfield site redevelopment in Elwood.



The funds will be used on the former Plastech site, which produced  
plastic injection molded exterior automotive components and was used  
as a painting facility for Chrysler and General Motors.


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For the entire article, see
http://heraldbulletin.com/business/x528363511/Award-to-help-assess- 
former-Elwood-factory

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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
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