[CPEO-BIF] San Diego, California redevelopment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I find this article self-contradictory. It seems to say that it’s difficult to redevelop brownfields in San Diego because there aren’t many, and that’s because many have already been cleaned up. That’s like Yogi Berra’s famous line, “No one goes there any more because it’s too crowded."  - LS]

Brownfield cleanup costs worst in S.D.


By Roger Showily 
San Diego Union Tribune (CA)
April 25, 2016 

San Diego ranks as the nation’s worst when it comes to cleaning up industrial sites for redevelopment purposes, according to a report released Monday. 

Arcadis, a Dutch-based design and environmental consulting firm that was involved in the recently opened Carlsbad water reclamation plant, ranked San Diego 22nd out of 27 U.S. metro areas in attractiveness for redeveloping industrial sites.

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Those are present in Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well, he said. But those two cities, as well as New York, have bigger and more dynamic economies. Another factor is San Diego has relatively few contaminated industrial sites or “brownfields” to clean up and thus less interest in developers specializing in that turnaround work.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/apr/25/arcadis-brownfield-redevelopment-investment/

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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
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