[CPEO-BIF] Pender Commerce Park, Pender & Hanover, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pender Commerce Park to be cleaned under brownfield plan

By Kate Elizabeth Queram
Wilmington Star News (NC)
October 7, 2011

A vacant and contaminated property straddling Pender and New Hanover  
counties will be cleaned and redeveloped for future industrial use  
under the state's Brownfields Program, according to county officials.

The 400-acre tract of land, at 110 Vitamin Drive along U.S. 421  
North, encompasses two separate properties, purchased by Pender  
County at different times for a total of about $6 million. The  
property – known as Pender Commerce Park – includes the former site  
of the BASF Corp., which manufactured vitamin products and left the  
land with both groundwater and soil contamination, according to state  
documents.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20111007/ARTICLES/111009795

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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
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