[CPEO-BIF] "Jacksonville [Florida] expands brownfield bonuses to companies"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Florida seems to be competing with Michigan in expanding the  
definition of brownfields.  - LS]

Jacksonville expands brownfield bonuses to companies, waiving policy  
requirements
Program attracts business to where contaminated hinders development

By David Bauerlein
Florida Times-Union
November 9, 2011
The landscaped grounds of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida  
Inc. office tower next to Riverside Avenue don’t look anything like a  
brownfield, the term for environmentally contaminated property.

That’s because it isn’t.

But if a Blue Cross and Blue Shield subsidiary hires 395 workers at  
the building, it will receive nearly $1 million from the state and  
the city for adding jobs in a city-designated brownfield zone.


...

For the entire article, see
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-11-09/story/jacksonville- 
expands-brownfield-bonuses-companies-waiving-policy

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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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