[CPEO-BIF] Kingsport Foundry, Kingsport, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Two prospects eyeing purchase of old Kingsport Foundry site

By Sharon Hayes
Kingsport Times News (TN)
December 6, 2011

KINGSPORT - The good news: The city has two potential buyers lined up  
for the old Kingsport Foundry property on Main Street.

The not-so-good news: The property must undergo more environmental  
testing and be designated as a brownfield site, which will cost the  
city between $70,000 and $100,000 before the land can be sold for  
development.

City staff engineer Steve Robbins told members of the Kingsport  
Economic Development Board Tuesday that representatives of the  
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation recently visited  
the foundry property to review the field conditions firsthand. The  
city is pursuing a plan with TDEC to have the land designated as a  
brownfield site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesnews.net/article/9039181/two-prospects-eyeing- 
purchase-of-old-kingsport-foundry-site

--

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

_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org