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Lansing getting $1M to clean up area sites for redevelopment
By Melissa Domsic | The Lansing State Journal
June 7, 2011
City leaders want to use $1 million in federal brownfield dollars to clean and revive contaminated sites along East Michigan Avenue, in south Lansing and at old auto manufacturing plants.
Private interest will play a key role in determining which sites are redeveloped first, Lansing's economic leaders said.
Overall, the city's share of funds from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - the largest of Michigan's $2.9 million and part of more than $76 million nationwide - will be offered as revolving loans to spur public and private investment.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson joined Mayor Virg Bernero on Monday outside of the Lansing City Market to announce the funds.
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Among his interests is cleaning up the former Lansing Car Assembly plant, once known as Fisher Body, on Verlinden Avenue, but he said the private sector will drive where and when projects happen.
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Always good to be recognize by the federal government for effectively using what they grant us. It's even better to hear that the speed-up for the Lansing Car Assembly (LCA) - Verlinden. The quicker we can get that site cleaned, the quicker the city and township can start marketing it.