[CPEO-BIF] "Problematic properties being put back to use in Dothan" [Georgia]

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Problematic properties being put back to use in Dothan


by Jennifer Calhoun
Dothan Eagle (AL)
August 8, 2014 

Friend Bank holds a prominent location at the high-traffic corner of Ross Clark Circle and Highway 84, where a gas station once sat.

But because a gas station once sat there, the spot hasn’t always been desirable for businesses.

The site is one of several of the city’s former brownfields that have been redeveloped from environmentally-problematic eyesores into prime business locations, said Matt Parker, president of the Dothan Area Chamber of Commerce.

A brownfield is described by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a property that can be complicated to redevelop “because of the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant.”

The site of a former gas station is often a brownfield, for example, as are some abandoned factories used for industrial purposes.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dothaneagle.com/news/business/problematic-properties-being-put-back-to-use-in-dothan/article_1731903a-1f47-11e4-9352-001a4bcf6878.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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