[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Sioux Army Depot, Sidney, Nebraska

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City likely to label depot site blighted

By Caitlin Sievers
Sidney Sun-Telegraph (NE)
April 28, 2014


A bill passed in the Nebraska legislature last year will make it  
possible for old defense sites such as Sioux Army Depot to be  
improved with redevelopment projects.

At last week’s city council meeting Sidney took the first steps  
toward a substandard and blighted designation for Sioux Army Depot in  
order to make projects at the site eligible for this sort of project  
funding.

“We’ve worked with the legislature for years to get them to  
understand the special circumstances and the challenges that we have  
with a major part of our community northwest of town as a former  
military installation and the substandard and blighted conditions for  
developers to try to turn that into useful properties,” city manager  
Gary Person told the planning commission last week. “Most of the  
infrastructure is 70 years old, the buildings are aging, the  
infrastructure’s aging.”

An economic development team consisting of members from both the city  
and county worked with state Sen. Ken Schilz to find an economic  
development plan that would facilitate development at old military  
bases.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.suntelegraph.com/story/2014/04/28/community/city-likely-to- 
label-depot-site-blighted/4106.html

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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
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