| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Fri, 18 May 2012 17:18:12 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Downtown Rockford, Illinois |
Davis Park, train station plans get $1 million from Illinois By Corina Curry Rockford Register Star (IL) May 12, 2012ROCKFORD - The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency awarded $1 million in River Edge Municipal Brownfield Redevelopment funds to Rockford Thursday, helping to pave the way for an expansion of Davis Park and a new Amtrak passenger rail train station downtown. The state grant will be used for environmental cleanup at key downtown properties — the former Tapco facility, 222 Cedar St.; the former rail depot site 815 S. Main St.; and the old Lorden/Eclipse site, 715 S. Main St. The depot and the Lorden building were demolished in 2011. The Tapco building, a long-standing eyesore, will be torn down this summer. ... For the entire article, seehttp://www.rrstar.com/news/x1310214648/Davis-Park-train-depot-plans- get-1-million-from-Illinois -- 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 | |
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