2005 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 25 May 2005 21:58:40 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Calvada Eye reuse (NV)
 
Calvada Eye plans OK'd

By PHILLIP GOMEZ PVT
Pahrump Valley Times (NV)
May 25, 2005

Nye County commissioners at their last meeting accepted the final report from its consultant with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the status of the Calvada Eye as a Brownfields demonstration project.

Last November, the Board of Commissioners directed Eileen Christensen to undertake the preparation of a reuse plan for the recently acquired 32-acre Calvada Eye, where earlier this month the Nevada JobConnect for Workforce Solutions opened offices at the long-vacant site, formerly the real estate headquarters of Preferred Equities Corp.

The Brownfields assessment demonstration pilot grant that funded Christensen's work sunsets at the end of June. The Calvada Eye Reuse Plan is only the latest component of county projects funded by the grant; nine other pilot projects have been in progress in Nye County since October 2002. Amargosa Valley, Beatty, Gabbs, Round Mountain and Tonopah also have pilot projects geared toward redevelopment of Brownfields properties.

"Brownfields" are economic development initiatives to reclaim spoiled or potentially spoiled properties due to the presence of past pollution, toxic contamination or hazardous materials stored on-site. Nye County began its Brownfields initiatives with the Beatty Habitat Trail Project, a "green space" habitat restoration and "eco-tourism" enterprise.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2005/05/25/news/calvadaeye.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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