[CPEO-BIF] Milwaukee, Wisconsin's "30th St. Corridor can’t succeed unless the contaminated land is healed."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corridor of Dreams
The Land of Brownfields
The 30th St. Corridor can’t succeed unless the contaminated land is  
healed. The process is already underway. Fifth story of a series.

By Susan Nusser
Urban Milwaukee (WI)
October 9, 2014

Industries in Milwaukee were once concentrated along the lakefront  
and in Walker’s Point. Over time, industrial development moved west  
into the Menomonee Valley and then northward into what would become  
the 30th Street Corridor, and the industrial spine of the city. Then  
A.O. Smith "leapfrogged" out at the northern end, says Tory Kress,  
Senior Environmental Project Engineer for the Redevelopment Authority  
of the City of Milwaukee (RACM). Residential housing inevitably  
followed all this industrial development, as jobs were created.

Today, the task of cleaning up all the brownfields those industries  
left behind reverses their historic trajectory. Brownfield resolution  
begins in Century City because of its size and, at 74 acres, its  
development potential. Moving southward, the industrial sites get  
smaller and the solutions for them need to become more creative as  
RACM deals with small parcels and oddly-shaped lots.

...

For the entire article, see
http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2014/10/09/corridor-of-dreams-the-land-of- 
brownfields/

Note the links to the other stories in the series.

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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