[CPEO-BIF] Former Masland Factory, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ground broken for redevelopment on land of former 48-acre Masland Factory

By Dawn White
WHTM ABC-27 TV News (Harrisburg, PA)
November 2, 2017

CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) – State and Cumberland County officials broke ground Wednesday on a vacant property destroyed five years ago in a raging fire. Now plans are underway to redevelop the land.

A fence lines a bare field in Carlisle, but leaders expect redevelopment of the 48-acre Industrial Brownfield to have a huge impact on the local economy.

“I grew up a few blocks from here. I remember this. This was an active factory. You had folks coming to work every day,” said Mayor Tim Scott, (D-Carlisle).

That all changed in May of 2012 when a massive fire tore through the old Masland Factory. New life was dug into the ground where hundreds of people used to work with a row of golden shovels.

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For the entire article, see
http://abc27.com/2017/11/02/ground-broken-for-redevelopment-on-land-of-former-48-acre-masland-factory/

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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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