[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: General Services-Belle Mead Depot, Hillsborough (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Hillsborough committee OKs next step for GSA depot redevelopment

By PAMELA SROKA-HOLZMANN
New Brunswick Home News Tribune (NJ)
November 17, 2008


The Township Committee has approved the next step for the redevelopment 
plan for the General Services-Belle Mead Depot, introducing an ordinance 
to transform the depot into a park and recreation area, with portions of 
the property zoned for research and development.

...

The redevelopment plan is necessary for the township to apply for a 
state brownfields grant to clean up the environmentally compromised 
property by addressing low levels of surface soil contamination caused 
by railroad ballast, and oil used to control dust on the site. Officials 
want to begin that work this year.

...

Mayor Anthony Ferrera said the township hopes to get state funding for 
the estimated $17 million cost to clean up the property. A state grant 
could fund up to 75 percent of the cleanup cost, Ferrera has said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20081117/NEWS/811170366

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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