2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:38:59 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] East Village, East Lansing, Michigan
 
Student housing at stake in E.L. redevelopment

By Jeff Kanan
The State News (MI)
March 1, 2009

Despite recent concerns from property owners in the East Village area and actions to label the area as environmentally contaminated, city officials said they have no intention of using eminent domain to acquire an area of land that’s home to housing for thousands of MSU students.

San Diego-based Pierce Education Properties currently is 12 months into a 30-month deadline to complete land acquisition of private properties located in the planned East Village area but hasn’t acquired any properties.

....

Additional concern was raised late last year when the city began assessing the history of the area for any suspicion of environmental contamination, which is the first phase in declaring a site as a brownfield, said Tim Dempsey, a community and economic development administrator for East Lansing.

The next phase would be testing on the site to declare it as an environmentally contaminated area.

A brownfield designation could call for an environmental cleanup of the area and make it possible for the city to use eminent domain.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2009/03/student_housing_at_stake_in_el_redevelopment


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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