Under the plan, the eight buildings on the site will eventuallybe replaced by 26 buildings providing a combined 851,000 sf ofindustrial space.
"I don't think we would have tackled that piece of propertywithout the brownfields designation," says Tom Kemp, president ofKemp-Peyerk Sterling, the Madison Heights company planning thedevelopment. "Without it, it would be a lot easier and cheaper forus to go buy farmland, virgin land."
The state Department of Environmental Quality has yet to giveits approval for the company's $272,000 plan to clean up chemicalsthat have contaminated the soil, including quantities of arsenic.Kemp says the demolition and cleanup could begin in February andconstruction of the project, the Powell Road Industrial Park, wouldbe launched in the spring.
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