[CPEO-BIF] "Lincoln-Lemington brownfields present development challenges, "

[Lenny Siegel]

Lincoln-Lemington brownfields present development challenges 
“Before they do any development, it’s got to be clean.”

by Ryan Deto 
Pittsburgh City Paper (PA)
March 22, 2017

Development in Pittsburgh’s East End is hot, but venture east of Washington Boulevard and few signs of new construction are present. While East Liberty, Bloomfield, Shadyside and Larimer are seeing new high-end apartments, big-box stores, restaurants and even affordable-housing projects, Lincoln-Lemington is still waiting for a boom. 

Lincoln-Lemington is mostly residential and contains about 4,500 residents, who are generally older and black. The neighborhood of more than 1.5 square miles has only two small convenience stores that offer mostly candy, pop and cigarettes.  

But there is a new commercial development coming that some hope will turn the tide. At the corner of Deary Street and Lincoln Avenue, Family Dollar is planning to build a new store on the site where an industrial-laundry facility and gas station once sat. And redeveloping abandoned, possibly contaminated, industrial sites like this, known as brownfields, could mean a lot for Lincoln-Lemington, says Pittsburgh City Councilor Ricky Burgess. 


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For the entire article, see
http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/lincoln-lemington-brownfields-present-development-challenges/Content?oid=2379605

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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