[CPEO-BIF] Toyota's York Township, Michigan facility

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Curtain rising on Toyota's York Township facility

by Stefanie Murray
The Ann Arbor News (MI)
August 11, 2008


The Toyota Technical Center quietly began moving more than 500 people 
and various pieces of equipment, computers and furniture into its nearly 
finished, $187 million engineering design and crash test buildings in 
York Township this past week.

By early September, the long-awaited 530,000-square-foot, two-building 
complex - which has been under construction for two years - will be open 
and operational. A public grand opening is planned for October, said 
spokesman Bruce Brownlee.

...

Part of the reason why Toyota's tax incentive package was so hefty was 
that the York Township site it chose - a former state-owned psychiatric 
hospital - was a brownfield, making the company eligible for brownfield 
tax credits. Toyota had to remove asbestos, tear down the old hospital 
and clean up the contaminated ground before beginning construction.

...

For the entire article, see
http://blog.mlive.com/ann_arbor_news_extra/2008/08/curtain_rising_on_toyotas_york.html

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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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