From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:45:31 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "Polluted site prepped for N. Portland [Oregon] affordable housing" |
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." … For the entire article, see https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/426156-332880-polluted-site-prepped-for-n-portland-affordable-housing -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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