[CPEO-BIF] Goodman Oil property, Boise, Idaho

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Building Boise West
The promise of environmental cleanup for near-downtown


Nathaniel Hoffman
Boise State University Blue Review (ID)
September 18, 2013

In an obtuse triangle at the far western corner of downtown Boise,  
hemmed in by freeway and river and surrounded by cyclone fencing,  
sits a former petroleum storage yard. From the 1920s through about  
2009, it was the Northwest base of operations for Goodman Oil  
Company, which owned gas stations in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. In  
2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found 35 chronic  
underground storage tank violations on Goodman's properties and  
issued more than $736,000 in fines against the company - the largest  
tank fine ever issued in the region.

Until this summer, the Goodman Oil Property along West Fairview in  
Boise was rundown and abandoned, thought to be highly polluted and a  
general thorn in the side of city officials intent on crafting a  
recreation and technology corridor just west of downtown.

Today, the Goodman property is scraped clean, under new, local  
ownership and deeded with a certificate from the Idaho Department of  
Environmental Quality promising not to sue and providing protection  
to any lenders who may acquire the property in the future.

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For the entire article, see
http://thebluereview.org/building-boise-west/

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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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