[CPEO-BIF] Former Green's Art Supply, Birmingham, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield plan approved for Birmingham site

By Lisa Brody
Downtown: Birmingham/Bloomfield news magazine (MI)
October 31, 2014

A brownfield plan for a new three-story building to be built on the  
site of the former Green's Art Supply was approved by the Birmingham  
City Commission on Monday, October 27.

The building, to be built by Jonna Luxury Homes, is at 400 S. Old  
Woodward at the corner of Daines. Birmingham Planning Director Jana  
Ecker explained to commissioners that the first floor of the  
building, fronting on Daines and S. Old Woodward, will have retail  
and some parking in the back under the building on the first floor.  
She said that while the building was initially approved for office on  
the second floor and residential for the third, it came back and was  
amended to have residential on the second and third floors. Plans  
project the building to have 11 residential condominium units  
available for individual custom design. Information from the building  
stated that two of the units have been sold.

Ecker said that there is contamination from various chemicals on the  
site, particularly on the eastern portion of the property, which is  
contained on the brownfield.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.downtownpublications.com/Articles-municipal- 
c-2014-10-31-219389.112113-Brownfield-plan-approved-for-Birmingham- 
site.html

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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
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