[CPEO-BIF] Miraflores nursery site, Richmond, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. EPA Region 9
News Release
March 30, 2011

Federal, State, Local Partners Clean Up Toxic WWII Era Greenhouse to  
Create Affordable Housing, Jobs




RICHMOND, CA – A former Bay Area nursery site once contaminated with  
pesticides, is now being cleaned up to pave the way for new housing  
and open space. The project will create about 300 'green jobs' in  
construction and remediation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin will be joined today by Keith Takata,  
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Regional Administrator,  
Stewart Black, Acting Deputy Director of Brownfield and Environmental  
Restoration for the California Department of Toxic Substances  
Control, Richmond residents and a host of officials at a press  
conference and kick-off ceremony to celebrate the start of demolition  
and environmental cleanup at the Miraflores site in Richmond.

This site, which consists of three former flower nurseries at South  
47th Street and Florida Avenue, will be developed into a new housing  
development and open space. The development will include affordable  
senior apartments and new market-rate single family homes. The open  
space will include creek restoration, an urban forest of trees and  
the preservation of historic structures including greenhouses and  
homes dating back to early 1900s.


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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/ 
0/9fe016ecaf327e6b852578630048f467?OpenDocument

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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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