[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Stratford (CT) Army Engine Plant "needs new plan"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Harkins says new plan needed to develop engine plant

Brittany Lyte
Connecticut Post
February 22, 2011
STRATFORD -- The federal government has failed a second time to move  
the Army Engine Plant off the auction block.

The General Services Administration received two bids for the Jan. 27  
property auction, but both fell short of bidding requirements and  
were declined, according to GSA spokeswoman Paula Santangelo.

The setback marks the GSA's second failed attempt to purge the  
contaminated 78-acre property, largely vacant for more than a decade,  
from its national real estate inventory.

...

Mayor John A. Harkins proposes this: the feds should disassemble the  
buildings, pen a remediation plan, subdivide the site and transfer  
those portions with little or no contamination to the Town of  
Stratford. The town would tout the parcels to developers while the  
Army cleans up the rest of the property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Harkins-says-new-plan-needed-to- 
develop-engine-1025975.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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