[CPEO-BIF] "Brownfield clean-up project underway at Baron Drawn Steel site, " Toledo, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield clean-up project underway at Baron Drawn Steel site

By Jake Pietrasz
WTVG TV-13 ABC News (Toledo, OH)
April 3, 2023 

TOLEDO, Ohio - The abandoned, blighted and contaminated Baron Drawn Steel site in the Clinton Park neighborhood in central Toledo is now being cleaned up and readied for redevelopment.

The community celebrated new steel jobs when the site opened in 1964 until it closed it’s doors 20 years ago. Now, as part of its Clinton Park neighborhood investment strategy, the Lucas County Land Bank has taken on the project.

After working closely with federal, state and local leaders, the Land Bank has secured all of the funding needed to remediate and demolish such a large number of buildings.

The Land Bank says half of the cost of the project is being paid for by the Lucas County Commercial Site Clean-up Pilot Program, through the Ohio Department of Development. The other half is being paid for by Toledo Recovery Plan dollars allocated through the American Rescue Plan Act by Toledo City Council and Mayor Kapszukiewicz. 

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For the entire story, see
https://www.13abc.com/2023/04/03/brownfield-clean-up-project-underway-baron-drawn-steel-site


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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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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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