[CPEO-BIF] EPB at Cavalier Corp. site, Chattanooga, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PB redeveloping brownfield at Cavalier site

By Ellis Smith
Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN)
June 12, 2011

* Name: EPB Cavalier Site, named after the Cavalier Corp. that made  
vending machines for Coca-Cola products. Founded in 1865, the company  
originally operated a sawmill at the site, then the Tennessee  
Furniture Co. of Chattanooga, and then an ice-chest manufacturing  
plant. The company went bankrupt in 1987 and closed in 2000,  
according to vintagevending.com.

* Location: Off Central Avenue, under the Bailey Avenue bridge.

* Status: The project is at the halfway point, with work expected to  
be done by January, said Steve Clark, EPB’s vice president of  
strategic systems. Construction workers still have to perform  
structural modifications to the basement, add a loading dock and some  
doorways, and finish the interiors and exteriors, he said. The site,  
which is classified as a brownfield, also must be modified for  
stormwater management.

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For the entire article, see
http://timesfreepress.com/news/2011/jun/12/epb-redeveloping- 
brownfield-cavalier-site/

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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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