[CPEO-BIF] Camden, New Jersey landfill

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

  From eyesore to new town center
A community center may rise on the site of a contaminated landfill.

By Melanie Burney
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
December 5, 2007

For years, developers have coveted a seemingly unlikely tract in
Camden's Cramer Hill neighborhood: an abandoned, contaminated landfill.

Their ambitious plans to transform the Harrison Avenue landfill -
ranging from a stadium, hotel and shopping complex to an 18-hole golf
course - never materialized.

Now the latest effort to develop the 85-acre landfill, which sits amid a
stretch of prime real estate along the Delaware River, is taking shape.

State and city officials gathered at the site yesterday to showcase work
under way to clean up the landfill and transform it into a community
oasis that would include a town plaza, a 132,000-square-foot community
center, a gym, a library and athletic fields.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20071205_From_eyesore_to_new_town_center.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org





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