[CPEO-BIF] Former RB&W site, Kent, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vacant former manufacturing site is in the midst of an Ohio EPA  
monitored cleanup

By Matt Fredmonsky |
Kent Patch (OH)
July 7, 2011

By the end of the year, Kent may be able to add another brownfield  
with redevelopment potential to the city's land bank.

Kent City Council voted Wednesday to buy the former RB&W site at 800  
Mogadore Road from owner Thomas & Betts Corp., of Memphis, TN, for $1.

But there are a few asterisks on the deal.

The sale of the 17.7 acres to the city depends on if the city is  
successful in obtaining state money from the Clean Ohio Fund  
Brownfield Revitalization program to clean up some remaining  
contaminants in the property's soil.


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For the entire article, see
http://kent.patch.com/articles/council-votes-to-buy-former-rbw-site- 
on-mogadore-road

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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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