2021 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:12:22 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "After decades, [St. Louis, Missouri] to sell former polluted Laclede Gas site to private developer"
 
After decades, city to sell former polluted Laclede Gas site to private developer

by Jacob Barker
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
March 26, 2021 

ST. LOUIS — The last pieces of the former Carondelet Coke site, once one of the most polluted properties in the region, are close to being ready for new development after a 15-year cleanup effort that took far longer than city officials expected.

“This was an extremely challenging site,” said Otis Williams, head of city economic development office the St. Louis Development Corp. “This was, if not the dirtiest site in Eastern Missouri, it was close to it.”

The board of the St. Louis Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority, the city’s land bank, on Tuesday authorized its staff to enter into a contract to sell the last pieces of land it still owns to developer Green Street St. Louis, which has been working with the city on redevelopment efforts for years.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/after-decades-city-to-sell-former-polluted-laclede-gas-site-to-private-developer/article_eb3f8beb-427e-5dee-aec1-99b2e7e77ed8.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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