2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:21:21 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Connecticut's Brownfield programs
 
'Brownfield' developers face maze of obstacles

Matthew L. Brown
Connecticut Mirror
April 19, 2010

Ask Jeff Vose, the former executive director of the Windham Mills Development Corp., and he'll tell you he was lucky to take on the redevelopment of the American Thread mill complex when he did.

"A lot of the funding was already in place, and I came in at the tail end of the demolition and remediation," he said. "It was a large-scale project with regional support, and it had put a couple of different funding sources together."

Still, the WMDC ended up in bankruptcy. And now appears to be stuck there as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency assesses still more pollution at the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ctmirror.org/story/5559/brownfield-developers-face-maze-obstacles

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