[CPEO-IRF] New Sunflower (KS) partner

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Third partner joins Sunflower Redevelopment LLC

By Melissa Shuman
DeSoto Explorer (KS)
November 16, 2006

A third partner has joined the redevelopment team at the former 
Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant south of De Soto just as the first 
cleanup efforts visible from outside the plant are getting underway.

It was announced Wednesday, Prairie Center Investors LLC -- an entity 
formed by the Overland Park-based Midland Properties Inc. -- would join 
the Sunflower Redevelopment LLC partnership of Kansas City-based real 
estate firm Kessinger/Hunter and Co. and International Risk Group Inc. 
of Denver.

The original partners took possession of the 9,065-acre closed defense 
plant with the promise to clean it of pollution created from more than 
40 years of propellant manufacturing and the commitment to make public 
benefit transfers totaling about 3,000 acres to the Johnson County Parks 
and Recreation District, Kansas University, Kansas State University, the 
city of De Soto and De Soto USD 232.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.desotoexplorer.com/section/news/story/6719

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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