[CPEO-BIF] Fort Wayne, Indiana incentives

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City Offers Cash Incentives To Try And Breathe New Life Into  
Brownfield Sites

By Jeff Neumeyer
Indiana's NewsCenter
April 30, 2012

FORT WAYNE, Ind. --- A vacant piece of land that's possibly plagued  
by contamination is something leaders of any city would like to fix.

Cash incentives in a Fort Wayne program are designed to get  
"properties" on the road to rehabilitation.

A YMCA just south of Creighton Avenue is a credit to its neighborhood.

But it didn't always look so good.

When a tire recycling operation at the same address caught fire in  
the 1990's, it left behind a contaminated mess.

The transformation to the YMCA is one of the city's best Brownfield  
success stories.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/City-Offers-Cash- 
Incentives-To-Try-And-Breathe-New-Life-Into-Brownfield- 
Sites-149563145.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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