[CPEO-BIF] Doehler-Jarvis site, Toledo, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City land remains barren

Farm slow to take root at old Doehler-Jarvis site

BY CLAUDIA BOYD-BARRETT
Toledo Blade (OH)
August 16, 2011

Cleanup of the former Doehler-Jarvis factory site in central Toledo  
has been slow to develop. For years, city and community officials  
have mulled what to do with the overgrown, junk-strewn site of the  
former Doehler-Jarvis plant on Smead Avenue in central Toledo.

It's been considered as a location for a near-maximum-security  
prison, eyed as a site for low-income housing, dreamed of as a spot  
for a community center, and for the past six years, it has been the  
subject of plans to create an urban farm, parkland, and community  
garden.

In 2005, the city tried and failed to secure a $1.5 million cleanup  
grant for the old factory site to enable two community development  
organizations to take on the urban farming project.

Finally, in early November of last year, the city of Toledo agreed to  
turn over about six acres of the land to the Lucas County Improvement  
Corp. which would coordinate the cleanup work and move the farming  
idea along. The sale, which cost the LCIC $450, was accompanied by  
$200,000 in federal brownfield cleanup dollars administered by the city.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2011/08/16/City-land-remains- 
barren.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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