[CPEO-BIF] Land Bank for West Central Connecticut brownfields

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Land Bank targets brownfields

Collective effort aims to make sites productive


by Luke Marshall
Citizen's News (CT)
December 30, 2013

NAUGATUCK - A new program is aiming to assist municipalities with  
turning brownfield sites into productive parcels again.

The Regional Brownfields Partnership of West Central Connecticut,  
which is hosted by the Valley Council of Governments, has implemented  
a new program called the Land Bank to try and deal with long-standing  
brownfield issues.

"We've been exploring the idea of how we can help municipalities take  
the next steps in returning the sites that have been long-troubled  
sites to productive use," said Arthur Bogen, who is president of the  
program.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycitizensnews.com/news/2013/12/land-bank-targets- 
brownfields/

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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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