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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 19:11:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Condo development goes up on old leather tannery's lakefront brownfield, " White Lake, Michigan
 
Condo development goes up on old leather tannery's lakefront brownfield

By Stephen Kloosterman
MLive
June 15, 2016 

WHITE LAKE, MI -- A Grand Rapids developer is building a lakefront condominium development on a brownfield site left by a leather tannery.

Tannery Bay held an open house June 4 of buildings under construction on a 33-acre of a former industrial site. Grand Rapids-based Eastbrook Homes plans to eventually build up to 160 condo units, a club house, restaurant, marina and pool.

"We're going to have several of the units completed in mid-August," said Eastbrook salesman Ben Brinks. He said more than 100 people attended the open house event and nine units have been sold so far.

Whitehall Leather Tannery operated there for more than a century, 1868-2000. A 350,000 square-foot industrial building on the site was torn down in 2007 and an environmental cleanup began. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took White Lake off the Great Lakes Area of Concern in October 2014.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2016/06/condo_development_goes_up_on_o.html

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