| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:36:23 -0800 (PST) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] BJ's Wholesale project, Miami-Dade County, Florida |
BJ's Wholesale takes environmentally damaged site by Nina Lincoff Miami Today (FL) December 18, 2013 In the summer of 2014, Miami-Dade County residents will be able to welcome a big box store with less resistance than Midtown's looming Walmart: a BJ's Wholesale club at 7090 Coral Way. Pan American Companies, a real estate developer based in Coral Gables, won approval in March to develop the brownfield site with a state development bonus tax of $240,000 and is moving ahead with transforming the brownfield site into retail space. Construction on the BJ's structure will begin this month. … What marked approximately the 18 acres at 7090 Coral Way as environmentally toxic? Its past of wood treatment with a chemical solution of chromate copper arsenate and creosote when leased successively to the Miami Wood Treating Facility, Lindsley Lumber and Stanley Davison between 1941 and 1980. … For the entire article see http://www.miamitodaynews.com/2013/12/18/bjs-wholesale-takes-environmentally-damaged-site/ -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545 Fax: 650-961-8918 LSiegel@cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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