[CPEO-BIF] If Sunoco closes, South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

When Sunoco leaves, what might go up at South Phila. site?


By Harold Brubaker
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
September 8, 2011

If Sunoco fails to find a buyer and idles its oil refinery in South  
Philadelphia next summer, the 1,400-acre property along the  
Schuylkill will join the ranks of shuttered Philadelphia industrial  
sites dating to the 19th century and in need of significant  
environmental cleanup.

In the last two years, DuPont Co. closed Marshall Laboratory in Grays  
Ferry, where a chemical plant began operations in 1863, and Dow  
Chemical shut down the few remaining operations at the former Rohm &  
Haas plant in Bridesburg, where a predecessor began operations in the  
1840s. At the Sunoco site in the city's Point Breeze section,  
Atlantic Petroleum Co. started storing refined petroleum products in  
1866, and it built a refinery there in 1870.

Some contaminated industrial sites sit empty for decades, even after  
environmental remediation. But the Sunoco property - because of its  
location between University City, the Navy Yard, and Philadelphia  
International Airport - is generating unusual excitement.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/129426548.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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