[CPEO-BIF] Duke Energy gives Port of Cincinnati $100K

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Duke gives Port $100K grant


By Amanda Van Benschoten
Cincinnati.com
January 10, 2012

The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority has received a  
$100,000 grant from Duke Energy Ohio and Duke Energy Kentucky for  
brownfield redevelopment.

The grant will help further the port authority's decade-long mission  
of redeveloping abandoned and distressed properties. But it also  
represents an investment in the future of the agency and its  
evolution into an economic development powerhouse for Hamilton County  
and Cincinnati.

...

The port authority plans to leverage the funds toward an application  
made in November for one of eight $1 million brownfield remediation  
loans from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The agency  
expects to learn this spring whether it will receive the loan.

...

For the entire article, see
http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20120110/BIZ/ 
301100118/Duke-gives-Port-100K-grant?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext% 
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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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