[CPEO-BIF] North Carolina recently entered into its 400th Brownfields agreement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State Celebrates Brownfields

North Carolina News Network
December 9, 2016

RALEIGH -- A state environmental program that has created thousands of jobs and pumped $14 billion dollars into North Carolina’s economy will celebrate a milestone in Raleigh.

The state’s Brownfields Program recently entered into its 400th agreement with a prospective developer. The agreements create special conditions for developers to cleanup or mitigate contamination so a site can be safely redeveloped and put back into productive use.

On Dec. 14, Donald van der Vaart, secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, and his staff will host a short event at the Raleigh Contemporary Art Museum in downtown Raleigh, which sits next to the site of the state’s 400th brownfields project. The 10 a.m. event will showcase the former Dillon Supply warehouse, which is being converted into a mixed-use development between South West Street and South Harrington Street.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ncnn.com/edit-news/9948-state-celebrates-brownfields

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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>
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