[CPEO-BIF] Dollar General development site, Scottville, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Dollar General to be Scottville's first brownfield project under city-run BRA

By Riley Kelley 
Ludington Daily News (MI)
June 13, 2023
 

Scottville has lined up its first brownfield project since the formation of the city’s own brownfield redevelopment authority in summer 2022.

The city commission on Monday signed off on an agreement between its BRA and Dollar General to make the store’s new and expanded location — coming to 209 S. Main St. — the city’s first brownfield project since splintering off from the county-run Mason County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority last year, according to City Manager Jimmy Newkirk.

Brownfield authorities provide incentives for the development of contaminated, blighted or functionally obsolete properties.

Newkirk told the Daily News there’s a “significant amount” of remediation work that needs to be done at the site, home of the former Healy building; the work is going to be costly, and might not be possible without assistance that comes from the brownfield designation.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.shorelinemedia.net/ludington_daily_news/news/local/new-dollar-general-to-be-scottvilles-first-brownfield-project-under-city-run-bra/article_c0fa0c72-09fe-11ee-8f20-434c043de4dc.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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