[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (MN)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Arden Hills land deserves attention

Editorial
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
August 23, 2009

The 585-acre, California-shaped chunk of land sprawling across the Twin 
Cities northern flank is definitely a fixer-upper. One of the biggest 
undeveloped parcels left in the metro, the former Twin Cities Army 
Ammunition Plant (TCAAP) just off Hwy. 10 and Interstate 35W has soil 
primarily contaminated by lead, volatile compounds in its groundwater, a 
surprising number of blocky industrial buildings, weed-infested parking 
lots and a thick forest of dark utility poles.

The property's sorry state is part of the price the nation paid for 
liberty. Billions of rounds of ammunition -- the bullets that helped the 
United States and its allies win World War II -- were made right here. 
That history, as well as the rarity of this sizable tract, is why this 
plain-jane property's fate shouldn't be left to the highest bidder.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/53989047.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aU2EkP7K_t:aDyaEP:kD:aUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

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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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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