[CPEO-BIF] Kalamazoo, Michigan "River's Edge"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rising from the rubble: Kalamazoo's River's Edge district proves  
worth of Brownfield Development



By Fritz Klug
Kalamazoo Gazette (MI)
October 2, 2011


KALAMAZOO - For more than 60 years, Earl O’Byrne sold thousands of  
bikes to children in the Kalamazoo area from his cluttered shop on  
Harrison Street.

The former Kalamazoo Cycle and Electric Supply Co. was one of the  
oldest companies in the city, located in a neighborhood with a mix of  
manufacturing, housing and retail shops. People living there could  
walk or bike anywhere they needed.

Demolition of the shop last month - it closed in 1988 - went largely  
unnoticed as the building joined other former warehouses and decades- 
old structures that have been torn down in the area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/10/post_194.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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