[CPEO-BIF] Montague Park, Chatanooga, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Montague Park brownfield one year from opening as city rugby fields
Additional acres set aside for outdoor sculpture park and museum

By Mary Barnett
Nooga.com
August 7, 2011

After remaining closed and contaminated for nearly a decade, Montague  
Park is on schedule to re-open in 2012 as the first of three new city- 
owned full-sized rugby fields located on the former landfill site.

With limited to no city funds, a citizen-lead team of interested and  
diverse businessmen have been working on their own to imagine and  
initiate the creation of a new public park.

The 47 acre park has sat empty, off-limits, uncapped and unused for  
seven years until Steve Lofty approached the city with an idea in 2009.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nooga.com/12289_montague-park-brownfield-one-year-from- 
opening-as-city-rugby-fields/

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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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