[CPEO-BIF] "Tampa [Florida] working to see five-story apartment complex built on old dump"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tampa working to see five-story apartment complex built on old dump

By CHRISTOPHER O’DONNELL
Tampa Tribune (FL)
December 3, 2014

TAMPA - Until the early 1960s, a four-acre plot on West Spruce Street  
lie within a 100-acre city landfill where bulky items discarded by  
residents were left to decay.

The landfill was eventually cleared but not before contaminants  
including arsenic and chromium - a compound that can cause  
respiratory illnesses - leached into the soil.

Wary of the unknown cost of cleanup, developers shied away from the  
site west of Lois Avenue for years. But now, a New York developer  
wants to build a five-story apartment complex and multilevel parking  
garage there if the city designates the land a so-called "brownfield"  
site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://tbo.com/news/business/tampa-working-to-locate-5-story- 
apartment-complex-on-old-dump-20141203/

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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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