2008 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] CleanTech Manufacturing Center, Los Angeles
 
'Green' industrial park proposed for downtown Los Angeles
Officials hope to create jobs with a cluster of environmentally sustainable companies on a former brownfield site.

By Marla Dickerson
Los Angeles Times
September 24, 2008

It's a vacant lot now, but Los Angeles officials hope to turn the former brownfield site downtown into a cluster of "green" manufacturing businesses to meet the region's growing demand for solar and wind power and other clean technologies.

The proposed CleanTech Manufacturing Center would be established on a city-owned 20-acre parcel in an industrial area near the intersection of 15th Street and Santa Fe Avenue, south of the 10 Freeway and west of the Los Angeles River.

The development, which city officials say could accommodate as much as 1 million square feet of industrial space, would essentially function as a green industrial park and incubator.

Officials are looking to generate jobs and turn a tattered pocket of Los Angeles into a hotbed of environmentally sustainable companies.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-greentech24-2008sep24,0,6208672.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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