[CPEO-BIF] Atlanta's (Georgia) Old Fourth Ward

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Luring developers to rebuild on polluted land

by Jim Burress
Marketplace 
May 16, 2013
	
When companies pack up and abandon places like apartment complexes, gas stations, factories, and rail yards, those properties often become what’s known as a brownfield.

Cleaning them up has become the focus of cities big and small.

…

It’s been called “Atlanta’s best idea.” And it’s also one of the nation’s most successful brownfield clean-up stories.

“This most certainly is a Brownfield -- this was a Brownfield, I should say,” says Lee Harrop as he looks around a busy section of trailway in the northeast part of Atlanta known as the Old 4th Ward.

Amid the skyline views and park-like setting, bicyclists and runners create a steady stream of passers-by.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/luring-developers-rebuild-polluted-land

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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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