Business First of Columbus wrote Columbus aims to create brownfields clean-up fund to spark building
Friday, January 25, 2008
by Jeff Bell
Columbus officials are turning to the Statehouse to help generate more money for redeveloping contaminated sites in the city.
A bill introduced in the Ohio Senate on Jan. 22 would pave the way for the city to create the Clean Columbus Fund, which would use proceeds from city bonds to clean so-called brownfield sites so they can be developed. The initiative would be modeled after the state’s Clean Ohio Fund program, which has pumped $15 million into brownfield revitalization projects in Columbus since 2002.
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