[CPEO-BIF] "Stratford [Connecticut] gets aggressive with brownfields"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Stratford gets aggressive with brownfields

By Bill Fallon
Westfair Communications
February 6, 2015

Not yet 3 years old, the Stratford Redevelopment Agency represents  
the town's foreclosure-backed plan to remediate brownfields and get  
them back on the tax rolls. In so doing, Stratford assumes what town  
officials acknowledged recently were "the headaches and expenses" of  
testing and remediation at the likes of former gas stations and  
manufacturing sites.

The upside is developer interest where previously there was none.

"Since we've been pretty lucky as far as remediation with our grant  
work, we've received a lot of calls from potential developers," said  
Karen Kaiser, the town's director of economic development. Prior to  
town involvement, she said developers feared "the shadows and ghosts"  
such sites can present.

The RDA's mission is to "devise and implement a diverse plan to  
promote industrial, economic and commercial development." Its  
successes to date have begun with foreclosures of tax-delinquent  
sites that bear the additional burden of contamination. Site testing  
and remediation are funded by state and federal grants.

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For the entire article, see
http://westfaironline.com/69016/stratford-gets-aggressive-with- 
brownfields/

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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>
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