[CPEO-BIF] Carondelet Coke, St. Louis, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Mo. coke plant to become business park


CHERYL WITTENAUER/Associated Press
Charleston Daily Mail (WV)
September 3, 2009

ST. LOUIS (AP) - A former coke production plant in south St. Louis will 
be converted to a business park with help from $6.7 million in state 
economic incentives.

Gov. Jay Nixon and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay outlined details of the 
project, which could potentially bring 360 jobs, during a news 
conference at the site on Thursday. A massive cleanup of pollutants has 
to be done at the site before the land can be developed, and it will be 
funded under the state's Brownfield Redevelopment Program.

The 40-acre Carondelet Coke facility was a coal gasification and coke 
production plant. Development of the site dates back to the 1700s. Great 
Lakes Carbon Corp. sold the plant and property to Carondelet Coke in 
1980, and the plant closed in 1988.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailymail.com/ap/ApTopStories/200909030577

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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
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