[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, RADIATION: Lowry Air Force Base (CO) landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

500 Homes And Shops Coming To A Landfill Near You

by Ben Gerig
Washington Park Profile (CO)
September 2009

A former "Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Site} - labeled as such 
in Air Force Installation Documents – will become home to International 
Risk Group's (IRG) upcoming Lowry Vista housing and retail development.



The anticipated project is located at E. Alameda Ave. between Xenia and 
Dayton streets on the defunct Lowry Air Force Base.

IRG, a Littleton-based corporation with multiple subsidiaries, deals in 
the remediation and redevelopment of "brownfields," an Environmental 
Protection Agency term for land "with the presence or potential presence 
of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant."

"We're pursuing a General Development Plan (GDP) on the site," says 
Marcus Pachner of The Pachner Company, an IRG consultant. "We just 
re-submitted the second GDP about three months ago and in early October 
we'll start the rezoning process. It's full speed ahead now."

Lowry Vista will be a mixed-use development, including 500 residential 
units interspersed with commercial and retail spaces. Comparable to 
Lakewood's Belmar District along Alameda and Wadsworth, Lowry Vista 
blueprints are currently moving through city approval procedures before 
entering final review by the state.


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For the entire article, see
http://washingtonparkprofile.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=654&Itemid=1

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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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