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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Open space or development for a Denver neighborhood?

by Bazi Kanani
KUSA TV-9 News (Denver, CO)
January 26, 2010

DENVER - The Denver City Council braced for a long night Monday as 
people for and against a proposal to redevelop part of the Lowry 
neighborhood packed into the meeting room. The council members are 
scheduled to vote on whether to rezone some contaminated open space to 
allow for new housing and stores.

The land in question is on 80 acres that was used as a landfill by the 
former Lowry Air Force Base. It's located just north of Alameda Avenue 
between Yosemite and Dayton, right next to the CommonGround Golf Course.

According to councilmember Marcia Johnson, the original plan was for the 
golf course to take over the land, but because the Air Force didn't 
completely cap the contaminated land, it can't be irrigated. The city 
and state didn't want the land because they didn't want to assume the 
liability costs. So the Air Force essentially gave it away to a private 
development company called IRG that was willing to take on those costs.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=131479&catid=188

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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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