[CPEO-BIF] Universal Mall, Warren, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Note: This article contains no information about site contamination. - LS]

Universal Mall is coming down

Struggling mall to be replaced by $20 million commercial center

By Norb Franz
Macomb Daily (MI)

Bruce Conn sat in his car and watched as two large backhoes tore through 
the exterior walls of Universal Mall in Warren, sending bricks and beams 
tumbling.

"This has been an eyesore a long time," said Conn, 62, who resides about 
two blocks west of the mall, in Madison Heights.

Demolition of the struggling mall, at Dequindre and 12 Mile roads, began 
Monday and is expected to continue through the week. Plans call for the 
landmark 752,000-square-foot mall - most of it built in 1965 - to be 
replaced with a $20 million retail complex.

...

Redevelopment of the site will be aided by a "brownfield" plan approved 
by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/062408/loc_local04.shtml

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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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