[CPEO-BIF] Shreveport, Louisiana GM site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ohio GM plant reflects possible future of Shreveport site

by Adam Duvernay
Shreveport Times (LA)
August 21, 2012

Public details of possible tenants of the facility now occupied by  
General Motors' Shreveport assembly plant are few, but a now-closed  
site in Ohio may demonstrate the process by which the local plant is  
purchased and repackaged.

Last week, RACER Trust announced that GM's former stamping plant in  
Mansfield-Ontario would be sold to Brownfield Communities Development  
Co., a deal that could mean hundreds of jobs.

...

Some differences exist, both between the Shreveport and Ontario sites  
and the expectations for tenants. But what worked in Ontario could be  
an early indication of the future of the Shreveport site, RACER Trust  
redevelopment manager Bruce Rasher said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20120821/NEWS20/208220322/Ohio- 
GM-plant-reflects-possible-future-Shreveport-site

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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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