[CPEO-BIF] Cherokee Investments and Triangle Transit (NC) sites

[Lenny Siegel]

Cleanup expert's new venture: rail


David Ranii
Raleigh News & Observer (NC)
September 6, 2006

Tom Darden has prospered by cleaning up polluted sites and converting 
them into valuable properties. Now he wants to transform the land around 
12 proposed commuter train stations across the Triangle into homes, 
stores and offices.

Darden, 51, is determined to push forward with this plan, even though 
the Triangle Transit Authority hasn't been able to attract federal 
funding to build the rail system.

Putting the development before the train is an untested strategy, but 
Darden is accustomed to breaking new ground. There was no template to 
follow when, in 1993, he and John Mazzarino started what today is 
Cherokee Investment Partners.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/483027.html

-- 
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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