[CPEO-BIF] Pruitt-Igoe, St. Louis, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nixon must help clean up Pruitt-Igoe

Editorial
St. Louis American (MO)
April 21, 2016 

Everyone in St. Louis with any serious interest in the region knows by now that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has chosen a site in North St. Louis for its new Western Headquarters. Every official in the region, and many in the state, have celebrated a major economic development victory that promises to change the narrative of the North Side from blight and disinvestment to revitalized infrastructure, high-tech jobs and collateral benefits for the entire city.

What not enough people appreciate is that this victory is not final. The NGA is hosting a public comment period through May 2, and anyone reading the Belleville News-Democrat’s frequently hysterical coverage of NGA West knows that the North St. Louis site has a major issue that still needs to be addressed. The News-Democrat is advocating, understandably enough, for the NGA West site in its coverage area in St. Clair County. And its editorial board knows that the NGA selected instead a site adjacent to the now-razed Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex, which has some major environmental issues: asbestos and – reportedly – radiation from covert U.S. Army experiments in tracking a radioactive plume.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.stlamerican.com/news/editorials/article_41d43ca2-076c-11e6-875f-d700dc8f2c70.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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