[CPEO-BIF] Baptist Hospital site, Knoxville, Tennessee's South Waterfront

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Knox leaders support TIF proposal for South Baptist redevelopment site


By MIKE KRAFCIK

WATE TV-6 News (Knoxville, TN)
September 27, 2013

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Knoxville and Knox County are proposing a tax- 
incentive package to help fund the redevelopment effort along the  
city's south waterfront.

The $165 million plan will transform the former Baptist Hospital site  
along Knoxville's South Waterfront into luxury apartments, student  
housing, a hotel and restaurant, as well as retail and office space.  
Demolition and construction are scheduled to begin in early 2014.

City and county leaders say the proposal is a catalyst for the area,  
and a key component is making private dollars available to the  
project's developer Blanchard & Calhoun Commercial.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wate.com/story/23552778/leaders-support-tif-proposal-for- 
south-baptist-redevelopment-site

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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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