[CPEO-BIF] New Belgium brewery project, Asheville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Belgium site shapes up; comment on brownfield

by Julie Ball
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
January 14, 2014

ASHEVILLE — As work continues to prepare the site for the New Belgium  
brewery, the state is taking public comment on a brownfields  
agreement with the company.

The agreement spells out the uses for the 19.8-acre site and also any  
measures needed "to protect public health and the environment."

The brewery, set to open in 2015 in the River Arts District, will  
produce 500,000 barrels of beer annually and employee 140 workers  
between the brewery and a distribution center.

A brownfield site involves property where redevelopment is "hindered  
by real or perceived contamination," said Tracy Wahl, brownfields  
project manager for the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural  
Resources.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20140115/NEWS01/301150023/New- 
Belgium-site-shapes-up-comment-brownfield

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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
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