[CPEO-BIF] Car Pro site, Clearwater, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clearwater buys East Gateway land

The 6,300-square-foot property is adjacent to the former Car Pro site


By LESTER R. DAILEY
Clearwater Beacon (FL)
March 21, 2012

CLEARWATER – Revitalizing the Clearwater's rundown East Gateway  
district is high on city officials' to-do list.

And on March 15, the Clearwater City Council took a step in that  
direction by approving the purchase of a 6,300-square-foot property  
at 14 South Evergreen Ave., adjacent to the Car Pro property that the  
city bought in August 2010 “for the purposes of environmental  
remediation and potential future redevelopment.”

The 12,000-square-foot Car Pro site, at 1359 Cleveland St., was  
purchased with money from a federal Environmental Protection Agency  
"brownfield" grant. Brownfields are defined as former industrial  
sites that are too polluted for further use without remediation of  
the pollutants.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.tbnweekly.com/pubs/clearwater_beacon/content_articles/ 
032112_clw-01.txt

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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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