[CPEO-BIF] "Big-box retailer seeks Brownfield remediation incentives in Miami-Dade, " Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Big-box retailer seeks Brownfield remediation incentives in Miami-Dade

by Brian Bandell
South Florida Business Journal
February 12, 2014

A national retailer and grocery chain, most likely Wal-Mart, is  
seeking state incentives to remediate and develop a Brownfield site  
in southwest Miami-Dade County.

The county commission will hear the proposal by the confidential  
company on Feb. 19. The Brownfield Redevelopment Bonus wouldn't cost  
the county anything, but the state would subsequently have to approve  
the award of up to $360,000 from its own money. The company has  
pledged to create 180 full-time jobs with annual wages of $20,000 -  
well below the county average - and invest $9.5 million in capital  
improvement to build an 112,534-square-foot store.

The agenda item doesn't specify a location but says it would be in  
the County Commission District 10, which includes part of Kendall,  
Westchester and Fontainebleau.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2014/02/12/national-big- 
box-retailer-seeks.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
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