[CPEO-BIF] Howe's Leather tannery site, Curwensville, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Work to begin on Brownfield project in Curwensville

By Dianne Byers
Progress (Clearfield, PA)
May 29, 2014

CURWENSVILLE - At yesterday's meeting, members of Curwensville  
Development Corp. heard updates on a local Brownfield rehabilitation,  
training for the Blueprint Communities program and its revolving loan  
program.

Equipment set up will begin next week as the start of a project to  
recover 26.5 acres along Cooper Road that was the former home of  
Howe's Leather tannery that operated from 1903 to 2003. The  
Clearfield County Economic Development Corporation was the recipient  
of a $1 million grant that will be used to defray expenses to develop  
the site for industrial use by demolishing existing structures and  
removing foundations and eliminating sludge from lagoons on the  
property.

According to published reports, three different sites of  
environmental and safety concerns will be cleaned up. Upon the  
project's completion, six to eight parcels of property will be  
subdivided and marketed for new business facilities.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theprogressnews.com/default.asp?read=38773

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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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