[CPEO-BIF] St. Helens, Oregon to create park at former Boise White Paper Mill site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City receives grant for park master plan


St. Helens Chronicle (OR)
December 14, 2019

The St. Helens Industrial Business Park is located on an approximately 225-acre underutilized brownfield that the City of St. Helens purchased in 2015. The property is located at the former Boise White Paper Mill site.

“This award is a key step in continued planning for the Industrial Park to promote local job growth and retention,” said Mayor Rick Scholl of the grant announcement. “We are excited to make progress on our Council’s goals.”

It is the City’s goal to facilitate and promote redevelopment of the site by removing environmental, regulatory, and infrastructure barriers associated with redevelopment of a brownfield. The St. Helens Industrial Business Park is entirely within a federally designated Opportunity Zone, the South Columbia County Enterprise Zone, and the boundaries of the City’s local Urban Renewal District, which was formed in 2017.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.thechronicleonline.com/news_paid/city-receives-grant-for-park-master-plan/article_0ef89a92-1bb0-11ea-8431-e7d926151e5c.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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