2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 31 Jul 2006 02:12:45 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Honeywell (North Tampa, FL) plan questioned
 
Plans for plant vex residents

Honeywell wants tax breaks to decontaminate and redevelop the land. Neighbors are wary.

AMBER MOBLEY
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
July 30, 2006

NORTH TAMPA - Angered and anxious for answers, Egypt Lake residents gathered Thursday to hear a company's plans for a local industrial site it polluted and abandoned decades ago. The former Honeywell plant is in many of their back yards.

Soon, retail and office space could occupy the site near the southwest corner of Waters and Himes avenues, company attorney Laurel Lockett said.

That is, if county commissioners approve the company's request to designate the 21.48 acres as a "brownfield," a government classification that will speed the site's redevelopment.

Honeywell - a maker of defense, transportation and electronics components - polluted the soil, groundwater and a nearby lake from 1965 to 1983.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/30/Northoftampa/Plans_for_plant_vex_r.shtml

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