[CPEO-BIF] Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad site, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Railroad site in Rocks to become business park


By Olivia Garber
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
June 21, 2011

The ramshackle Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad site in McKees Rocks  
soon will undergo a renovation, transforming from eyesore to  
potential economic and environmental boon for the community.

Trinity Commercial Development LLC announced plans on Monday to  
develop the brownfield site into a flex-space business park that  
spans almost 500,000 square feet. The redevelopment is estimated to  
bring in more than 400 direct jobs, as well as $13 million in state  
and local taxes, a welcome change from the pile of broken glass and  
rubble that P&LE left when it went bankrupt about 15 years ago.

The railroad company also left soil contamination, requiring a costly  
environmental assessment before development can begin. But Trinity  
Commercial was spared the financial risk, as the $600,000  
environmental assessment was funded entirely through grants from the  
federal Environmental Protection Agency.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11172/1155102-28.stm

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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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