[CPEO-BIF] "From Contaminated To Downtown's Biggest Housing Development In Generations , " Atlanta, Georgia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From Contaminated To Downtown's Biggest Housing Development In Generations 

by Jarred Schenke
Bison Atlanta (GA)
July 17, 2018 

Ronald Batiste is a big believer in developing affordable housing. To do it in Atlanta, Batiste's San Francisco company is looking to redevelop a site polluted by a former metals coating factory.

Eagle Environmental Construction is pursuing a nearly 3-acre site off Whitehall Street in Downtown Atlanta near the Castleberry Hill and Mechanicsville communities that is the former home of Simmons Metal Plating Co. The projected $122M mixed-use project will include 512 apartments over a 600-space parking deck with another 25K SF of commercial space. 

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division lists the site on its Hazardous Site Inventory, which denotes which properties in Atlanta are brownfields and subject to federal remediation grants. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.bisnow.com/atlanta/news/affordable-housing/from-contaminated-soil-to-downtowns-biggest-housing-development-in-generations-90754

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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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