[CPEO-BIF] "Polluted site prepped for N. Portland [Oregon] affordable housing"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Polluted site prepped for N. Portland affordable housing
Bureau of Environmental Services cleaning up brownfield, soon to be 61-units, on Williams Avenue. 

by Zane Sparling 
Portland Tribune (OR)
April 22, 2019	

A shuttered manufacturing site with a polluted past is steaming toward a future as subsidized housing, thanks to several infusions of grant funding. 

The city's Bureau of Environmental Services is spending $200,000 to help pay clean-up costs for the brownfield Wagstaff Battery Company site in North Portland's Eliot neighborhood. That's on top of $4.5 million in urban renewal funds OK'd by City Hall in January. 

The total price tag for the project, including public and private dollars, is roughly $20 million. 

"This grant is an investment in our community, helping to create healthy neighborhoods, while providing deeply affordable housing in a historically underserved neighborhood," said Commissioner Nick Fish on April 11. "It's a win-win-win."

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For the entire article, see
https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/426156-332880-polluted-site-prepped-for-n-portland-affordable-housing

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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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