[CPEO-BIF] Massachusetts blighted properties

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Blighted properties put to varied uses through state Brownfields program

By ARIEL WITTENBERG
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA)
October 7, 2012

The old Alden Corrugated cardboard box mill on Church Street IN New  
Bedford was "a blight on the City" for more than 10 years after it  
closed in 1991.

In 1995, the mill building was destroyed in a fire. It was  
demolished, but debris remained in the basement. Four underground  
storage tanks of petroleum remained buried, making the site  
unattractive to potential buyers.

Until, that is, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental  
protection funded the removal of the tanks in 2003 through its  
brownfields program and provided liability protection for the site's  
buyer.

Now, the old Alden Corrugated cardboard box mill is home to three  
3,000-square foot greenhouses, owned by Sid Wainer & Son Co., a  
grower of specialty produce.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121007/ 
NEWS/210070328/1018/OPINION

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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>
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