[CPEO-BIF] Consolidated Pipe to renovate Baumann Coatings site, Bessemer, Alabama

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bessemer City Council grants tax breaks to Consolidated Pipe for  
brownfield project


Jesse Chambers
Birmingham News (AL)
July 17, 2013

BESSEMER, Alabama -- The Bessemer city council voted Tuesday to  
authorize Mayor Kenneth Gulley to execute a brownfield development  
agreement with Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. Inc. that will grant  
the firm some tax breaks in return for a major renovation of an  
existing industrial facility and the creation of new jobs.

The Birmingham firm is buying and planning a major overhaul of the  
Baumann Coatings Co. facility located at 2095 Fourth Ave. SW in  
Bessemer.

Consolidated will spend $7,850,000 on the project, according to the  
text of the resolution passed by the council.

This sum will include both the cost of the land and the renovation of  
the facility, according to Bessemer City Attorney Shan Paden.
...

For the entire article, see
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/07/bessemer_city_council_grants_t.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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