2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 17:07:55 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "From Contamination to Community Investment" - Michigan's Brownfields program
 
From Contamination to Community Investment

by Natalie Burg
Concentrate Media
October 30, 2013

There's nothing quite like climbing westward over the Broadway St. bridge and approaching the entrance to Kerrytown. Though it's a dash of daily romance for many Ann Arborites, the idyll has long been tarnished by a rather homely property at the edge of the quaint neighborhood. For thirty years, as Kerrytown has flourished around it, the thin, triangular parcel of land between Broadway and N. Division has sat empty, save a small, boarded up structure.

With downtown property values at a premium - especially in Kerrytown - the question of how a vacant lot could have sat undeveloped for so long is a good one, and the answer has something to do with that sad- looking building. It was a former gas station.

...

"The whole intention of the brownfield legislation is to level the playing field between greenfield development and brownfield development," says Voght. "It's more efficient, and it's a cheaper cost to the community in the long run to develop site that are already in an urbanized area. It's smart growth."

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For the entire article, see
http://concentratemedia.com/features/upsideofbrownfieldprojects0259.aspx

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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
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