[CPEO-BIF] Flawed tests at Pesoskey Pointe, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel]

[In my experience, developers usually play down contamination on their 
property. Apparently Michigan's Brownfields redevelopment incentives are 
significant enough to encourage developers to highlight or even 
exaggerate environmental problems. - LS]


Developers net $4.5M credit from flawed tests

By Craig McCool
Traverse City Record Eagle (MI)
September 24, 2006


PETOSKEY — Tests showing widespread soil contamination helped developers 
of a sprawling downtown project land a tax credit worth millions.

The tests were wrong, though, and very little soil pollution existed at 
the site, according to state records obtained by the Record-Eagle under 
the state Freedom of Information Act.

But Petoskey Pointe developers used the flawed information — weeks after 
their consultants acknowledged their errors to state regulators — in an 
application that led to a $4.5 million brownfield tax credit.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/sep/24petoskey.htm
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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
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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