[CPEO-BIF] Old Fulton Bellows manufacturing site, Knoxville, Tennessee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plans for retail center near UT campus unveiled

WBIR TV-10 News (Knoxville, TN)
January 3, 2012

Two nation-wide stores will soon serve thousands of people who live  
and work in Downtown Knoxville. They'll be part of a new retail  
development set to go up near the UT campus.



A team of local developers is purchasing the old Fulton Bellows  
manufacturing site that sits next to the University. Local  
developers, Bud Cullom, Mike McGuffin and Jim Harrison have put a  
deal together that will allow them to build the 210,000 square foot  
University Commons shopping center on the property. The first two  
tenants to sign on are a Publix grocery store and a Walmart, which  
will sell general merchandise and no groceries. The development also  
has room for several smaller businesses along the store fronts.


...

Before the new buildings can go up, the developers have to deal with  
some environmental issues left over from decades of manufacturing on  
the property. Harrison said it is a Brownfield and they have to move  
as little dirt as possible.



"You basically have to encapsulate the entire land with a parking  
deck that has a vapor barrier underneath," explained Harrison.


...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wbir.com/news/article/198586/2/Plans-for-retail-center- 
near-UT-campus-unveiled?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Cbc%7Clarge

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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>
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