[CPEO-BIF] Challenge Machinery, Grand Haven, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New plan unveiled for old Challenge shop

BY MARK BROOKY
Grand Haven Tribune (MI)
November 21, 2006

A century-old factory on Grand Haven's east side is being positioned for 
a major facelift in the next few years.

The head of a firm that owns the former Challenge Machinery Co. property 
on the northwest corner of Fulton Avenue and Beechtree Street said he 
plans to tear down parts of the 216,000-square-foot factory and turn the 
site into a multiple-use campus consisting of small industrial, 
commercial and office space — and possibly some residential condominiums 
at a later date.

...

The site will require an estimated $3.9 million in preparation work, 
Oleszczuk said, because of extensive contamination from its former heavy 
industrial use. That work will include environmental cleanup, building 
demolition, lead and asbestos abatement, and infrastructure improvements.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.grandhaventribune.com/paid/287553448736378.bsp

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