2018 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 14:36:57 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Delta Plaza Mall, Escanaba, Michigan
 
Esky OKs more tax breaks for mall


by ILSA MATTHES
Escanaba Daily Press (MI)
November 2, 2018

ESCANABA — Dial Companies, which owns the Delta Plaza Mall, will receive further tax breaks to rehabilitate the mall property following a public hearing held Thursday.

Four years ago, the city designated the mall building as an Obsolete Property Rehabilitation District under the Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act (OPRA). The act allows for partial exemption from property taxes for a set period of time to encourage certain types of improvements on underutilized or decaying commercial or commercial/residential properties in designated communities. 

…

Earlier this year, the Escanaba Brownfield Redevelopment Authority designated the mall and some of the adjacent outlots as a brownfield property after a baseline environmental assessment found the chemical tetrachloroethylene in the groundwater at the mall near the site of a former dry cleaning business.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.net/news/local-news/2018/11/esky-oks-more-tax-breaks-for-mall/

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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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