[CPEO-BIF] South Works, Chicago, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chicago a model for brownfield lands Windy City has big plans for 500  
acres of former U.S. Steel operation

By Joan Walters
Hamilton Spectator (ONT)
October 31, 2013

Just south of Chicago, on 500 acres that jut into Lake Michigan with  
dazzling downtown views, a small suburban city is planned for a  
landfill base of slag - property that was once the South Works  
operation of U.S. Steel.

U.S. Steel closed the plant in 1992, leaving a void in the southside  
of Chicago where South Works was once the largest employer, with  
30,000 workers.

But the value of the land prompted the American steel giant and  
developer McCaffery Interests to collaborate on the $4-billion, 30- 
year project to build 13,000 homes, 17.5-million square feet of  
retail and commercial space, a high school, a marina and parks.

Even though Lakeside, as the project is known, still has years of  
remediation work to go, it's a high-profile example of the hundreds  
of brownfield redevelopments under way in the United States, all  
backed by integrated, well-funded programs to revitalize abandoned  
industrial sites.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4183371-chicago-s-south-works-a- 
model-for-brownfield-properties/

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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
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