[CPEO-BIF] Cherokee sustainability report

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

For Immediate Release
Cherokee
July 9, 2008

Cherokee Report Highlights its Investments in Sustainability
Private Equity Fund Uses Capital and Creativity to Transform Communities


Raleigh, N.C. - Cherokee, a private equity firm specializing in 
brownfield cleanup and sustainable redevelopment, released its annual 
Sustainability Report. The fifth of its kind, the report summarizes
Cherokee's sustainability programs and investments that are at work to 
revitalize impaired properties here and abroad. The complete report is 
available at http://www.cherokeefund.com.

"Sustainability is our business," said Tom Darden, CEO of Cherokee. "By 
setting clear goals at the outset of each investment, Cherokee is able 
to achieve strong returns while improving environmental and social
conditions at sites around the world."

Cherokee's focus on sustainable returns - lasting economic, 
environmental and social gains for all its stakeholders - combines 
business strategy with corporate values. For more than two decades, 
Cherokee has used private equity, coupled with creativity and expertise, 
to purchase, cleanup and reuse property.


...

For the entire press release, see
http://www.cherokeefund.com//pdfs/CherokeeSustainabilityReportRelease7-9-08.pdf
--


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