2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:51:48 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Bethlehem Steel site, Bethlehem. Pennsylvania
 
Former Bethlehem Steel property gets 'green' makeover

Sarah Peters
Lehigh Valley Express-Times (PA)
May 11, 2012

Before development began on a parcel of former Bethlehem Steel brownfields, mining for slag left the land looking like the moon, a building executive said.

Despite the lunar history mentioned by Anthony Scarcia Jr., Allied Building Corporation's president and CEO, the property is getting a “green” facelift. The 1.2-million-square-foot property at 2785 Commerce Center Boulevard will have a new identity as a warehouse in Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VII.

...

Wrobel said the property had higher concentrations of heavy metal, leftovers from Bethlehem Steel, than residential standards allow, so the contents were capped in the ground, where they will remain instead of entering the groundwater.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2012/05/ former_bethlehem_steel_propert.html

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Lenny Siegel
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