[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Sunflower Redevelopment (KS) to suspend operations

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Vision of new community at old Sunflower plant suddenly imperiled


By MIKE HENDRICKS
The Kansas City Star
March 14, 2011

Johnson County’s contribution to the 21st century was to be a  
spanking-new community in a park.

Perhaps over all these years you’d forgotten about grand plans to  
rehab the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant on the outskirts of  
De Soto.

Once a massive cleanup was completed, it was envisioned as a place  
where 25,000 people would “live, work and play in a unique community”  
surrounded by 2,000-plus acres of parkland.

Then suddenly last week, that dream was put on hold indefinitely.  
Members of the project’s citizens advisory board were stunned to  
learn that the six-year-old environmental cleanup project was being  
curtailed because of huge cost overruns.

With the U.S. Army balking at committing $100 million more - on top  
of $109 million already allocated to meet the demands of state and  
federal regulators - Sunflower Redevelopment LLC quietly announced  
that it will suspend all operations by this summer.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/14/2726135/vision-of-new-community- 
at-old.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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