[CPEO-MEF] Twin Cities Ammo Plant transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ammo plant holds acres of possibilities 

Sarah Mc Cann 
Star Tribune (MN)
November 10, 2004 

There are a lot of people with a lot of dreams for the Twin Cities Army
Ammunition Plant land. A 774-acre tract of the site, which is one of
largest undeveloped spaces in the metro area, will be transferred from
the U.S. Army back to private and civic ownership.

"There should be room that everybody can have their little piece they
want," Arden Hills Mayor Beverly Aplikowski said. "It'll be a mixed bag
of things, and we're hoping everybody will have a little bit they'll be
happy about."

The former TCAAP site sits on 4 square miles of land, acquired by the
federal government in 1941, in northern Arden Hills. The Army has now
declared that 774 acres of that, about one-third of the site, is no
longer needed because ammunition manufacture ended in the late 1970s. 
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/stories/142/5072179.html

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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
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