[CPEO-BIF] ReVenture Park project, Mount Holly, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Eco-industrial park developer near Mount Holly refining its plan

Michael Barrett
Gaston Gazette(NC)
February 3, 2012

A vision for redeveloping a contaminated industrial site near Mount  
Holly has become a little more hazy.

Gaston County leaders have looked forward to the economic windfalls  
they might see from the conversion of a former chemical manufacturing  
site on the Catawba River. The ReVenture Park project would turn the  
667-acre site in northwest Mecklenburg County into an eco-industrial  
park, which could benefit the surrounding region.

Plans have long been to kick-start the venture with a waste-to-energy  
facility that would burn trash to create electricity. But that idea  
has fallen by the wayside, said Tom McKittrick, president of Forsite  
Development, a commercial real estate firm leading the effort.

"The anchor was going to be the large, waste-to-energy project," he  
said. "Right now, that seems to be on hold."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/industrial-66913-park-site.html

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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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