2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:36:23 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] BJ's Wholesale project, Miami-Dade County, Florida
 
BJ's Wholesale takes environmentally damaged site


by Nina Lincoff 
Miami Today (FL)
December 18, 2013

In the summer of 2014, Miami-Dade County residents will be able to welcome a big box store with less resistance than Midtown's looming Walmart: a BJ's Wholesale club at 7090 Coral Way.

Pan American Companies, a real estate developer based in Coral Gables, won approval in March to develop the brownfield site with a state development bonus tax of $240,000 and is moving ahead with transforming the brownfield site into retail space. Construction on the BJ's structure will begin this month.

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What marked approximately the 18 acres at 7090 Coral Way as environmentally toxic? Its past of wood treatment with a chemical solution of chromate copper arsenate and creosote when leased successively to the Miami Wood Treating Facility, Lindsley Lumber and Stanley Davison between 1941 and 1980.

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For the entire article see
http://www.miamitodaynews.com/2013/12/18/bjs-wholesale-takes-environmentally-damaged-site/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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