[CPEO-BIF] "Brook Park council hires firms to help redevelop brownfields"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brook Park council hires firms to help redevelop brownfields

 

By Grant Segall

Cleveland Plain Dealer (OH)

August 15, 2014

 

BROOK PARK, Ohio - Brook Park is hiring consultants to help reclaim and redevelop brownfields.

 

Todd Davis, chief executive of Hemisphere Development in Bedford, told City Council recently, "You can ultimately attract amazing users that can really become community assets."

 

Mike Dolan, former Cleveland councilman turned Brook Park development commissioner, says the suburb has some of the best access to industrial transportation east of Chicago, with an airport, railroad lines and two interstates at hand. But the potential cost of cleanup is keeping many parcels idle in the roughly 1,100 acres of an industrial zone on the city's northern edge.

 

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For the entire article, see

http://www.cleveland.com/brook-park/index.ssf/2014/08/brook_park_council_hires_firms.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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