[CPEO-BIF] "Brownfields color Portland's [Maine] East Bayside rebirth"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfields color Portland's East Bayside rebirth

By David Harry 
Falmouth Forecaster (ME)
July 5, 2016

PORTLAND - A one-hour bus ride around East Bayside last week showed how the neighborhood is redeveloping, and how much of it is hampered by contamination from an industrial past.

“We are following the risk-takers into the neighborhood,” Caroline Paras, community and economic planner at Greater Portland Council of Governments, said during the June 30 tour.

The excursion, preceded by a workshop and followed by an advisory committee, helped determine where federal dollars passed on by GPCOG and the city can fund efforts for environmental remediation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theforecaster.net/brownfields-color-portlands-east-bayside-rebirth/

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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