[CPEO-BIF] "New development may be coming to potentially contaminated land in Ybor City, " Tampa Bay, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

New development may be coming to potentially contaminated land in Ybor City
Developers are hoping to get the area designated as what’s called a “brownfield" to help revitalize the land.

By Miranda Parnell
WTSP TV-10 News (Tampa Bay, FL)
August 18, 2023

TAMPA, Fla. — From potentially contaminated land to community redevelopment.

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“Historically, it was used by a gas utility,” McLane Evans, the assistant city attorney, said in regard to this site. “So there is likelihood that if you test the soil and the groundwater, you will find some residual petroleum or something like that.”

City staff members say if the area gets the “brownfield” designation, the developer cleans it up and then follows through with their redevelopment plan, then the area essentially gets revitalized without spending tax dollars.

“They spend real dollars in today’s money, and they get tax credits after it’s done,” Evans said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/community/new-development-contaminated-land-ybor-city/67-348e1b18-9540-4d88-b53b-868aa36d00d7

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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
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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