[CPEO-BIF] "Plans Introduced to Cleanup and Redevelop the Contaminated Rockwell Site, " Chelsea, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plans Introduced to Cleanup and Redevelop the Contaminated Rockwell Site

By Doug Marrin
Dexter Sun Times News (MI)
April 9, 2021

Chelsea City Council received an update on the Rockwell Building Redevelopment Project at its April 5, 2021 meeting. 

Dave Van Haaren of Triterra, a brownfield and environmental consulting firm based in Lansing, was in attendance to introduce the much-anticipated development that will address the contaminated former manufacturing site.

“We're excited to be involved in the City of Chelsea, and we think this is going to be a great project,” Haaren told the Council. “It's going to increase the foot traffic for the downtown, and it's going to be a great amenity to the City.” 

Located in the Chelsea Commercial Historic District (The Clocktower Plaza), the Rockwell Building was historically used for industrial purposes. From 1909 to 1987, the manufacturing plant produced stove and automobile components. It is assumed that these manufacturing activities are the cause of significant environmental contamination on the site. 

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For the entire article, see
https://thesuntimesnews.com/g/chelsea-mi/n/27117/plans-introduced-cleanup-and-redevelop-contaminated-rockwell-site

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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