[CPEO-BIF] New clinic on Coralville, Iowa brownfield

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

UIHC opens new clinic in former brownfield

By B. Adam Burke
NORTH LIBERTY LEADER (IA)
October 31, 2012

CORALVILLE - Opening a 167,000 square foot medical clinic in  
Coralville, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics (UIHC) has placed  
a major foothold in the redevelopment site of a brownfield which once  
housed an open-air coal storage site, railroad storage and transfer  
sites, a former municipal dump, an asphalt factory, and multiple fuel  
storage tanks.

The brownfield redevelopment, which also boasts a conference center  
and 200-room hotel, restaurants, retail space and a microbrewery, has  
been the focus of an ongoing EPA cleanup since 1998 that's brought  
almost $2 million in EPA grants for assessment and some minor cleanup.

The brownfield is a 300-acre site on both sides of the river. In  
2010, the Iowa State Board of Regents approved the purchase of 1.3  
acres from the city of Coralville for a little over $2 million for  
the UIHC facility.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.northlibertyleader.com/article.php?id=7782

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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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