[CPEO-BIF] Former Vicksburg, Michigan paper mill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ambitious redevelopment seeks $1.35M to clean up shuttered mill



By Malachi Barrett
MLive (MI)
March 7, 2018

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Local officials are hopeful that Michigan Department of Environmental Quality funds will help clean up a blighted site primed for an ambitious redevelopment project. 

Tuesday, the county Board of Commissioners authorized its Brownfield Redevelopment Authority to apply for a $1.25 million DEQ loan and $100,000 grant to mitigate contamination of a former Vicksburg paper mill. Paper City Development LLC. plans redevelop the long-vacant mill complex into an $50 million brewery and mixed-use space.

Chris Moore, a Vicksburg native and owner of Old Stove Brewery in Seattle, is proposing to place a a craft beverage taproom, office, retail and residential space in the sprawling mill complex.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2018/03/vicksburg_mill_brewery_1.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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