[CPEO-BIF] Walling Crate Company site, Leesburg, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Incentives eyed for plant cleanup

Leesburg Daily Commercial (FL)
December 27, 2013

Land behind Palm Plaza on U.S. 27 could be more easily developed with  
financial incentives for the landowner that the city of Leesburg is  
asking the state to support.

The city wants the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to  
designate the Walling Crate Company behind the plaza as a Brownfield  
Area "for the purposes of economic development, environmental  
remediation and rehabilitation."

If given that status, the owner of the four-acre tract - which has  
buildings dating back to 1922 - would be eligible for clean-up tax  
credits, sales tax credits on building materials, a loan guarantee  
program and clean-up liability protection from the state.

The owner, Walling Crate Company Inc. and Walling Enterprises Inc.,  
would additionally be eligible to receive fully deductible past and  
future clean-up costs from the federal government.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailycommercial.com/news/ 
article_4a9ff4f4-50c9-5d70-9b30-535f0674fb86.html

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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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