2016 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 23:48:04 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Former Pasco Motors property, Dade City, Florida
 
Eyeing development, Dade City moves forward with brownfield designation

By Robert Nappe
Tampa Bay Times (FL)
December 15, 2016 

DADE CITY - A plan is gaining traction to designate a former car dealership near downtown as a brownfield area in order to obtain state economic incentives to clean up the contaminated property.

The designation is part of a program administered by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection that seeks to provide economic incentives to potential developers and investors to clean up sites that are, or may be, environmentally contaminated. Such properties include former gas stations, dry cleaners, schools or businesses that used lead, gasoline or chemicals.

During a workshop this week, the Dade City Commission approving bringing forward a resolution for a vote that would designate two lots totaling nearly 3 acres, at Seventh Street and Robinson Avenue, as a brownfield, with the hope that after cleaning up petroleum contamination there, a high-end, mixed-use development will be built on the former Pasco Motors property.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/eyeing-development-dade-city-moves-forward-with-brownfield-designation/2306285

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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