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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:10:04 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Another Riverfront? Wilmington [Delaware] to restore Brandywine brownfield"
 
Another Riverfront? Wilmington to restore Brandywine brownfield

by Christina Jedra 
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
April 20, 2017

Wilmington's Riverfront features restaurants, a boardwalk and a nature center, but 20 years ago it looked a lot like the weedy patch of land at 14th and Church streets today near the Brandywine River.

"Our 'before' (picture) over there didn't look any better than this one," said Mayor Mike Purzycki standing at the site. "It was pretty forlorn."

The Brandywine site's "after" picture is yet to be determined, but officials believe it could become an economic driver for northeast Wilmington. To further that goal, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the award of a $197,500 grant to Wilmington on Thursday. The money will be used to study cleanup and development options for the 14th Street site and another location at 12th Street and Governor Printz Boulevard.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2017/04/20/another-riverfront-wilmington-restore-brandywine-brownfield/100702752/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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