[CPEO-BIF] "Plans on track to raze half of [Ontario, Ohio] GM plant"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plans on track to raze half of GM plant


by Lou Whitmire
Mansfield News Journal (OH)
November 7, 2012

ONTARIO - Brownfield Communities Development Company is moving  
forward with plans to demolish half of the former General Motors  
plant, while the sale for the facility is still pending.

The demolition will make way for the development company, a joint  
venture of Adler Group Inc. and Hilco Real Estate, to bring 1,100  
jobs to the community within the next five years.

"We are taking an obsolete, single-tenant facility and turning it  
into a modern multi-tenant business generator," said Michael M.  
Adler, CEO and chairman of Adler Group. "Demolition and renovation  
will create immediate jobs, but we are more excited about our product  
and the long-term jobs and economic benefits that will be created in  
the future."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20121107/NEWS01/311060050/ 
Plans-track-raze-half-GM-plant

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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
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