[CPEO-MEF] Former Defense site in Riverside (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Riverside moving ahead with land-transfer plan

LA SIERRA: A developer will get the site and will clean up contamination 
on the parcel.

By SHIRIN PARSAVAND
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
September 10, 2005

RIVERSIDE - The city is firming up plans to transfer 56 acres of 
city-owned land in La Sierra to a developer who has agreed to clean up 
contamination on the site.

Environmental consultants have estimated the cost of cleaning up the 
city's former Agricultural Park at $12 million to $14 million, according 
to Assistant City Manager Michael Beck. The city earlier had estimated 
the cost at $5 million.

The land between Crest and Rutledge avenues once was part of a military 
installation, and a sewer plant operated there from 1942 to 1965. In 
2003, the city agreed to a land swap with developer Chuck Cox that would 
give him the land for a residential development. In turn, the city would 
receive 61 acres west of Riverside Municipal Airport for expansion of 
the city-owned Sky Links golf course.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_M_ragpark10.d991b01.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
http://www.cpeo.org
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