[CPEO-IRF] Memphis Depot Industrial Park (TN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BRAC AND THE ARSENAL: CLOSED MEMPHIS DEPOT SMELLS OF SWEET SUCCESS

By Ed Tibbetts
Quad City Times
May 3, 2005

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The first thing you notice is the cotton.

Its fragrance hangs in the air with a tinge of sweetness and a trace of 
humidity. It fills the nostrils and sticks with you.

It’s the kind of smell that reminds a Southerner of his youth, of diving 
into piles of cotton on the family farm.

In the South, cotton is still king. And, at the Memphis Depot Business 
Park, situated in a poor side of this city’s southwest side, it is 
royalty here, too.

Stacked three bundles high, cotton bales fill up 1.2 million square 
feet, more than a quarter of the 4.2 million square feet of space under 
roof here. And, as much as any other commodity, King Cotton has led to 
the resurgence of this former Defense depot that just eight years ago 
was bluntly closed by the federal government.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1050382&l=1&t=Special+Reports&c=112,1050382


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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