[Fwd: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Ironsides Battery. Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin]

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Date: Wed,  8 Aug 2007 09:12:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jesse Silverstein <jesse@developmentresearch.net>


If a property remains vacant because of environmental
concerns, then it is a brownfields site.  Something as simple
as an evironmental assessment can clear the property of
concerns (if it is clean), and clear it of faulty perceptions-
 this action can bring a new use where there was none.  Is it
a redevelopment? Not if there was no new costruction.  Is it
a brownfields site?  The very definition of one.  This speaks
to the multitude of gas station sites I see where all the
neighbors know it is the superfund site on the corner.

---- Original message ----
> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:42:46 -0700
> From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>  
> Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Ironsides Battery. Fond du Lac County, 
Wisconsin
> To: Brownfields Internet Forum <brownfields@list.cpeo.org>
>
> [This article raises a question that I've been wondering 
about lately,
> based upon site visits in New York state. To what degree is 
the reuse of
> a factory building, by a new owner, a brownfield 
redevelopment? Anyone
> have an answer? - LS]
>
>
> Community benefits from new business
>
> By Joann Schrauth
> Oshkosh Northwestern (WI)
> August 7, 2007
>
> It took a long time, but the former Ironsides Battery 
brownfield site
> has found new life.
>
> And county officials — who had been trying to sell the 
property for more
> than a decade — are breathing a sigh of relief.
>
> It's exciting to see West Bend Machine Works in the former 
battery
> factory — a brownfield site that was reclaimed by Fond du 
Lac County,
> said Brenda Hicks-Sorensen, president of the Fond du Lac 
County Economic
> Development Corporation. The property had been vacant since 
1990.
> The FCEDC helped Fond du Lac County market the building. 
West Bend
> Machine Works purchased the property in October 2006 for 
$119,000.
> ...
>
> For the entire article, see
> http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20070807/FON03/708070349/1327/OSHbusiness
> --
>
>
> 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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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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