[CPEO-BIF] Arthur Kill area, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Renewable energy is focus of Perth Amboy redevelopment site


My Central Jersey
March 7, 2012

PERTH AMBOY - A Colorado-based company specializing in brownfield  
development is looking to attract renewable-energy businesses to a  
100-acre site along the Arthur Kill that needs to undergo an 18-month  
environmental remediation.

Viridian Partners, a brownfield development company, has been  
approved by the Perth Amboy Redevelopment Agency as the developer for  
the ePort site, a 100-plus-acre tract, bounded by the Arthur Kill,  
Crane Creek, the Route 440 bridge and the High Street extension.

A redevelopment agreement for the $90 million investment was signed  
on Wednesday at City Hall. The project includes the acquisition,  
remediation and construction of the site. The company plans to seek  
renewable-energy business for the site to create an environmentally  
responsible Perth Amboy, in a area with a 100-year history of  
industrial and maritime use.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20120307/NJNEWS/303070033/ 
Renewable-energy-is-focus-of-Perth-Amboy-redevelopment-site

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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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