[CPEO-BIF] Former Jeep assembly plant, Toledo, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port authority offers vision for former Jeep site

Property's flexibility called key

BY DAVID PATCH
TOLEDO BLADE (OH)
July 8, 2011

A lone smokestack is all that remains of the former Jeep assembly  
plant that is being prepared for reuse as an industrial complex with  
rail and expressway access.

Ground could be broken yet this year for the first building in a  
proposed 930,000 square-foot industrial complex on the former Jeep  
assembly plant site in central Toledo, which is now owned and being  
cleaned up by the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority.

...

But a contractor has finished the $340,000 cleanup of  
trichloroethylene, an industrial solvent on part of the site, and the  
port authority has $5.8 million in state and federal grants to  
continue clearing pollution and underground debris from other parts.

Some of the foundations are 5-feet thick, the port president said,  
but that concrete will be crushed and reused as aggregate for new  
construction.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2011/07/08/Port-authority-offers- 
vision-for-former-Jeep-site.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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