[CPEO-BIF] River of Steel, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Group gets steel-furnace site

By Sam Spatter
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW (PA)
May 28, 2010

An organization that has worked for years to redevelop the Carrie 
Furnace property that once was part of U.S. Steel Corp.'s Homestead 
Works has take a major step forward.

Allegheny County has turned over a 15-acre site at the property to Steel 
Industry Heritage Corp., and received from it ownership of the hot-metal 
bridge onto the site.

No money changed hands in the swap, which will allow work to begin on 
what is the largest undeveloped brownfield site in the county.

August Carlino, president of the Steel Industry Heritage group, and 
others have been waiting for about 20 years for action to occur at the 
site along the Monongahela River, primarily in Rankin, Braddock and 
Swissvale.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_683359.html

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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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