[CPEO-BIF] Buckeye Auto Parts, Columbus, OH

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Thrive Companies seeking up to $10M to clean up Buckeye Auto junkyard for redevelopment

by Mark Ferenchik
Columbus Dispatch (OH)
February 12, 2022

Thrives Companies is seeking up to $10 million in state cleanup money for a polluted junkyard and former landfill on McKinley Avenue along the Scioto River.

Thrive wants to build a mixed-use development there that includes housing, a 12-acre park and a boat launch.

The site at 2474 McKinley Ave. is now home to Buckeye Auto Parts and has previousbeen a landfill. According to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, the pollutants buried there include organics, inorganics, heavy metals, paints, pigments, incinerator ash, and demolition debris.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2022/02/12/developer-wants-10-million-clean-up-mckinley-ave-site-project/6702857001/

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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