[CPEO-BIF] Former McLouth Steel plant, Gibraltar, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

WCC approves brownfield plan for former McLouth Steel plant in Gibraltar


By Dave Herndon
News-Herald (MI)
April 2, 2015


When the Cleveland-based Ferragon Corp. recently completed the purchase of Steel Rolling Holdings in Gibraltar, the company was hoping to redevelop the site under a brownfield plan.

Thursday the Wayne County Commission approved the site plan unanimously.

Ferragon has already begun to changeover the operations and upgrade the facility. In all more than $56 million is expected to be invested in the site.

“This is a terrific reuse of an inactive steel plant, and the jobs are most certainly welcome,” said Commissioner Joseph Palamara (D-Grosse Ile Twp.), who sponsored the measure and whose 15th District includes Gibraltar. “The cleanup also is very good news because of the environmentally sensitive nature of the area due to the refuge, the nearby Detroit River, marshes and other wetlands. The Frank and Poet Drain flows onto the property. Industry and government have worked  together to clean up many Downriver areas, including the refuge, and this is another positive step in that direction.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2015/04/02/news/doc551d99e5a4cb5422755176.txt?viewmode=fullstory

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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