[CPEO-BIF] "Amazon confirms it’s moving into Shelby Township," Michigan

[Lenny Siegel]

Amazon confirms it’s moving into Shelby Township

By Sarah Wojcik
C & G Newspapers (MI)
September 14, 2017

At 12:05 a.m. Sept. 14 — 9:05 p.m. on the West Coast Sept. 13 — Amazon announced that it will build a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center at 23 Mile and Mound roads.

Inventory at the fulfillment center, slated to open in 2018, will include household decor, sporting equipment and gardening tools.

The project includes a proposed $90 million investment and 1,000 full-time jobs with benefits, according to the retailer. Local officials praised the partnerships that occurred at the township, county and state levels to bring the project to fruition.

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Among the remediation efforts, Hillwood Enterprises proposes to demolish the existing structures at the site, clean up contaminated soils, manage and prevent the further spread of contaminated soils, and “ultimately return a highly unproductive property back to (the) community as an economic and environmental asset,” according to the brownfield plan prepared by the Macomb County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority and Bonner Advisory Group.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.candgnews.com/news/amazon-confirms-its-moving-shelby-township-104015

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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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