2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:25:06 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] NUMMI plant, Fremont, California
 
[NUMMI, until recently a joint venture of Toyota and GM, is the last major auto plant in the San Francisco Bay Area. It will be difficult for its skilled workforce to recover from the planned shutdown, but located on the edge of Silicon Valley, the property itself is likely to be redeveloped, even under current economic conditions. - LS]


Options weighed at NUMMI plant in Fremont


by David Goll
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
September 28, 2009

FREMONT - The big question now for NUMMI is, "What's next?"

Barring a dramatic reversal from Toyota Motor Corp., redevelopment appears to be in the future of the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant, which is scheduled to cease production in March.

Fremont city leaders including Mayor Bob Wasserman say they prefer to see the site remain a manufacturing facility, though they view its continued operation as an automobile plant a longshot. Attracting cleantech companies to the 5.3 million-square-foot plant will be a major priority, Wasserman said.

Other potential uses include retail, residential or a mixed-use commercial project featuring office, retail, residential and hotel development, he added.

But each option has its associated complications, including any environmental cleanup costs at the site. And because the potential uses are so varied, no one is ready to speculate what cleanup and redevelopment might be.


...

For the entire article, see
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/09/28/story3.html?b=1254110400%5E2161201

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