[CPEO-BIF] Former dry cleaning site at Delta Plaza Mall, Escanaba, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Delta Plaza plan heads to city council


by ILSA MATTHES
Escanaba Daily Press (MI)
October 18, 2018


ESCANABA - A brownfield redevelopment plan for the Delta Plaza Mall will go before the Escanaba City Council tonight following split-vote approval by the city’s brownfield redevelopment authority at a special meeting Wednesday, but the future of the former Super One Foods building is far from decided.

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"I do not feel, as a citizen of the community, we should be putting money into a facility that is owned by a company that is looking basically for tax breaks and money from us to refurb to their own property, which they should be doing themselves," resident Paul Caswell told the authority board.

The authority designated the mall site a brownfield last month due to contamination discovered during a recent environmental assessment. The assessment revealed tetrachloroethylene in the groundwater in excess of the Department of Environmental Quality’s minimum reporting and clean-up levels. A dry cleaning facility was once located in the mall near where the chemical was found, and tetrachloroethylene is widely used for dry-cleaning fabrics. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.net/news/local-news/2018/10/delta-plaza-plan-heads-to-city-council/

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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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