2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:16:03 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Jacksonville [Florida] expands brownfield bonuses to companies"
 
[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
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