From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:43:03 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Boynton Beach, Florida transit hub |
Transit hub vital to Boynton's plan to transform downtown Board discloses $185,000 proposal to transform downtown By Erika Pesantes South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 26, 2008 Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency board members revealed Tuesday the framework they hope will transform downtown from languished to vibrant. Their plan covers 746 acres between Interstate 95 and Federal Highway from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to just south of Ocean Avenue. It would guide redevelopment through 2020. The $185,000 plan calls for a transit station on Federal Highway between Boynton Beach Boulevard and Ocean Avenue that would serve as a "catalyst" for redevelopment. It is one of several sites proposed for City Hall's relocation. ... In other business, CRA board members also moved forward with a brownfield designation that would make environmentally contaminated properties eligible for federal money for cleanups. Board members, however, are only recommending commercial and industrial properties in the CRA district be designated. They are also including the proposed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard redevelopment project and the Ocean Breeze affordable housing project. ... For the entire article, see http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpdowntown0326pnmar26,0,1009856.story -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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