[CPEO-BIF] State offices, Bennington, Vermont

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Many reasons to move downtown

Opinion by William Colvin
Bennington Banner (VT)
April 14, 2009


I would like to thank the Bennington Banner for its continuing coverage 
of the efforts to secure a downtown location for use as state offices 
for all, or some, of the employees displaced as a result of health 
concerns at the Bennington state office building on Veterans Memorial 
Drive. As the legislative session heads into the home stretch, 
Bennington is on the verge of losing out on a tremendous economic 
development opportunity for its downtown.

The House Corrections and Institutions Committee has recommended wording 
in the 2010 capital bill that directs the administration to gut and 
rehabilitate a portion of the existing office building and raze and 
reconstruct another portion to move all the Bennington employees back 
into the building they vacated.

...

Approximately one-half of the employees at the office building work for 
the Agency of Human Services. All of these employees can be housed on 
the second floor of 210 South St. The well-documented issues with 
airborne TCE in the building have been addressed with a state-of-the-art 
mitigation system, and the building has now been tested twice with no 
detection of TCE or other contaminants.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/opinion/ci_12137934

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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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