[CPEO-BIF] Former Hancock Ellsworth Tannery, Hancock, Maine

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hancock sees revitalized business, economy around former tannery

by Jack Dodson 
Ellsworth American (ME)
November 16, 2017 
	
    
HANCOCK - Right now it’s a health hazard, sitting empty on a small hill overlooking Route 1. But the former Hancock Ellsworth Tannery could eventually be filled with businesses and housing if two grant applications submitted by the town of Hancock are approved.

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Right now, the former tannery site is “a dilapidated, graffiti-ridden eyesore that kids hang out in,” said Rich Campbell, who runs the Falmouth-based Campbell Environmental Group. His company specializes in brownfields grants, according to its website.

Campbell’s company wrote the grant for the town of Hancock, after an assessment by the Hancock County Planning Commission identified the site as a possible brownfields site. Hancock officials applied for the grants last year, but didn’t receive funding to clean up the tannery.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/maine-news/environment/hancock-sees-revitalized-business-economy-around-former-tannery/

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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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