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[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New life for old Alcoa plant site
Kinsey Probasco Hayes to lead joint venture picked to develop 350-acre 
property

By Lance Coleman, Blount Today
Knoxville News Sentinel (TN)
March 21, 2008


Alcoa Inc.'s old West Plant property off Hall Road in Alcoa will soon be 
developed by the Chattanooga company that redeveloped the Sunsphere and 
the World's Fair site in Knoxville.

Alcoa Inc. signed a letter of intent Thursday with a joint venture led 
by Kinsey Probasco Hayes to develop land where the company's first plant 
was built in 1920. The other member of the joint venture is 
International Risk Group of Denver, Colo., which has considerable 
experience in "brownfield" redevelopment, said Alcoa Inc. spokeswoman 
Melissa Copelan.

...

The site could be developed as retail and office space and possibly a 
hotel, one Alcoa city official said.

The company stressed that development of the 350-acre West Plant site 
would have nothing to do with expanding the company's aluminum 
production facilities, Copelan said.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/mar/21/new-life-for-old-alcoa-plant-site/

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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
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