[CPEO-BIF] Lindbom Elementary School site, Brighton, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Buyer backs out of deal for old school; Brighton looks at charter  
school offer


by Jim Totten
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus (MI)
July 10, 2014

A deal to sell the vacant Lindbom Elementary School in Brighton to a  
residential developer has fallen through, but Brighton Area Schools  
officials are already looking at a backup offer.

Superintendent Greg Gray said he will be meeting next week with  
representatives from the charter school operation called American  
Classical Academies. The charter school had offered $1.45 million for  
the property at 1010 State St., just north of Main Street in Brighton.

...

Gray said the company didn't qualify for brownfield funds, which are  
provided to developers seeking to give new purpose to a contaminated  
site. He said there was a plume of contaminated water discovered  
under the school in the 1950s or ’60s, and monitoring wells were  
installed for regular testing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20140710/NEWS01/307100002/ 
Buyer-backs-out-of-deal-for-old-school

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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