2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:06:48 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "A toxic mess, 'one of the worst, ' became Tempe Marketplace, " Arizona
 
A toxic mess, 'one of the worst,' became Tempe Marketplace

by Mark Nothaft
Arizona Republic 
September 20, 2017 

Next time you zap zombies at Dave and Buster's, belly up to a plate of ribs at Lucille's Smokehouse, or behold the epic Cine Capri screen at Harkins Theatres - all at lively Tempe Marketplace shopping center - consider what used to lay beneath your feet.

It's enough to make you want a tetanus shot.

The roughly 200-acre site bound by McClintock Road to the west and the Loop 101 Freeway to the east, between Rio Salado Parkway and the Salt River/Loop 202, spent decades in unincorporated Maricopa County before Tempe annexed the land in 1999.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe-history/2017/09/20/what-buried-where-tempe-marketplace-now-stands/672612001/

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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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