[CPEO-BIF] "Brownfield development revives hope for Hazelwood, " Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield development revives hope for Hazelwood


by Tom Fontaine
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA)
December 8, 2013

Hazelwood leaders don't want the neighborhood to find itself on the  
wrong side of the railroad tracks separating it from the former LTV  
Steel Co. site along the Monongahela River.

If a $1 billion investment goes as planned, the sprawling brownfield  
site would become home to offices, housing, retailers and light  
industry.

As large machines prepare the 178 acres for development, groups such  
as the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority, Hazelwood Initiative and  
ACTION-Housing Inc. are working to prepare the distressed  
neighborhood for growth.

"We don't want people to just stay on the LTV site. We want them to  
get into the neighborhood," said Councilman Corey O'Connor, who  
represents Hazelwood, where LTV had the city's last operating steel  
mill.

...

For the entire article, see
http://triblive.com/news/editorspicks/5167942-74/hazelwood- 
neighborhood-development#axzz2n979jmet

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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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