[CPEO-BIF] Springfield, Ohio "City project leveraged $270 million"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City project leveraged $270 million

By Michael Cooper
Dayton Daily News (OH)
November 17, 2013

SPRINGFIELD - The city’s $28 million brownfield redevelopment project  
has leveraged approximately $270 million in investment, according to  
city and state records.

With the recent openings of the National Trail Parks and Recreation  
District’s Chiller downtown ice arena and the Champion City Business  
Park, the city’s brownfield project has put seven sites it  
redeveloped since 2000 back into productive use.

The remediation efforts led to the development of two new hospitals,  
a cancer center, a business park, the downtown ice arena and two  
businesses. The investments have created or retained approximately  
1,925 jobs, and could bring an estimated 300 more jobs at the  
industrial park over the next several years.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local/city-project- 
leveraged-270-million/nbtKt/

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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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