[CPEO-BIF] Muncie, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City ranks top brownfield sites

Four lie along Cardinal Greenway; two are owned by Art Hicks and two by 
Steve Reed.

By SETH SLABAUGH
Muncie Star Press (IN)
June 16, 2008

MUNCIE -- From the front porch of her near-downtown apartment, Catherine 
Clark looks across the street at weeds, a concrete slab and a rusty old 
industrial building with graffiti, broken windows and one of its doors 
standing wide open.

"It'd be wonderful to have a little park or grocery store there," said 
Clark, a part-time employee in the county prosecutor's office who lives 
in Howard Square, a three-year-old, 30-unit, affordable apartment community.

The chances of something being done to improve the abandoned site -- 
known as the Shear-Line Golf Equipment/Kiser plating property, 401 E. 
Howard St. -- greatly improved recently when it was named the city of 
Muncie's top brownfield site. The property was mostly destroyed by fire 
in 2001.

The city has acquired enough funding to conduct environmental 
assessments on eight brownfields and to sample four of the sites for 
hazardous substances.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080616/NEWS01/806160319/1002

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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>
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