[CPEO-BIF] Victory Development, Dallas, Texas

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

World's largest clean brownfield debuts

by MIKE MARTIN
UPI Science Correspondent
May 2, 2011

WASHINGTON - Engineers and developers in Dallas are heralding the  
world's largest brownfield remediation as a smashing success and a  
model for the rest of the US, which is dotted with some 600,000  
possible brownfield sites -- previously developed urban land now  
derelict and often contaminated.

"I have to say this has gone pretty well," said Rick Patterson,  
president of Dallas-based Hillwood Companies, the site developer.  
"The whole site had to be cleaned up and there have been no  
surprises." The 72 acre project -- dubbed the Victory Development --  
is a joint effort between Ross Perot, Jr.'s Hillwood and Tom Hicks, a  
principal with finance company Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst.

The project centerpiece will be the American Airlines Center, the  
future home of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and the Dallas  
Stars hockey team, opening July 28. "The master plan includes a  
complete urban development with office, retail, residential, and  
hotel space," Patterson explained. "It will all take about 10-15  
years to complete."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.weeklyscientist.com/ws/articles/brownfield.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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