[CPEO-BIF] Health center planned for old Kalamazoo Paper Mill, Kalamazoo, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEQ loans Kalamazoo $600K to clean up contaminated paper mill

By Malachi Barrett
MLive.com (MI)
May 9, 2018


KALAMAZOO, MI -- The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is loaning the city of Kalamazoo $600,000 to clean up contamination at a shuttered paper mill.

The vacant building at 400 Bryant St. will be redeveloped into a new space for 160 staff from Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services to move in. A $9 million investment by PlazaCorp is expected to add $1.07 million in new taxable value to the city.

A brownfield plan was approved by the city of Kalamazoo to help cover the cost of removing contaminated soils containing ash from the site. The DEQ has planned to excavate and remove the soil at its own expense, according to brownfield authority documents, but was unable to perform the work.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2018/05/kalamazoo_awarded_60k_loan_to.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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