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    Columbus aims to create brownfields clean-up fund

    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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    Walker Evans is the co-founder of Columbus Underground, along with his wife and business partner Anne Evans. Walker has turned local media into a full time career over the past decade and serves on multiple boards and committees throughout the community.
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