[CPEO-IRF] Stratford Army Engine Plant (CT) bidding process

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This is one more property where the concept of cleaning to future use 
means that the contamination determines the use. Executive policy has 
undermined the nation's environmental laws. - LS]


Stratford Army plant bids imminent

RICHARD WEIZEL
Connecticut Post Online
April 27, 2007

STRATFORD - After representatives of a global real estate firm toured 
the closed Army engine plant this week, plans are taking shape to seek 
bids on redeveloping the sprawling Main Street property in 60 days, 
Mayor James R. Miron said Friday.

Representatives of Cushman and Wakefield, hired recently by the federal 
General Services Administration to conduct a fact-finding and market 
analysis, toured the 79-acre site Tuesday with more than 20 Army, 
federal, state and local officials.

...

After touring the contaminated former plant on the banks of the 
Housatonic River, Cushman and Wakefield officials want everyone to "keep 
an open mind" about how to market the property, Miron and other town 
officials said.

"They made it clear we need to keep an open mind about what should be 
developed there, but are also aware, because of the site's 
contamination, it doesn't bode well for a housing component," the mayor 
said.

Miron explained the U.S. Army is obligated to clean up the site only to 
meet industrial standards, estimated to cost about $50 million.

To clean the property to standards suitable for housing could cost as 
much as $150 million, officials said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_5768541


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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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