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Critical Mass Bicycle Rides
The hits just keep on comin'! The BCC's 'No! No! No!' post tells us that some commission with a really really long name has a plan for fixing transportation infrastructure by adding a tax of as much as $.40 to a gallon of gas.
Keep warm and have a good weekend.
January 18, 2008
Critical Mass!
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Rough crowd over there.
Oh all wise and knowing PRU crew:
There used to be a gas station at Oakton and Busse. It was torn down and now MB Financial Bank has expanded into that area. The question is, with that site having been a gas station, was there any contamination and was the city asked to share the cost of any remediation if necessary? If the city was asked, what was the answer? If they're giving money to Bredemann & Napleton, are there others out there?
Anonymous 11:30-
I am neither wise nor knowing. With that, consider the following.
I don't think MB got anything from the City, remediation cost-wise. If something like that came through the Council, I would have remembered it.
Further, the site is likely not dirty. Banks are extremely skittish about environmental liability, and MB probably would have shied away from a site with LUST or the like.
As for giving money to others, it's probably just a function of whether the "others" have the right friends in City Hall.
M,
As I recall, the property at Oakton & Busse never actually changed hands. The party that owns and rents the original space to MB also owns the space where the gas station was. Environmental clean ups usually don’t become an issue unless the property is sold and the new lean holders want clean title.
A little late on the commentary, but the site should be clean today. I recall the underground tamks were changed on the site within the past five years (my recollection). The new Illinois standards are for double-walled USTs. Any contamination would have been cleaned up at the time of change-over. It is highly unlikely the double-walled tanks would have failed in that short timeframe.
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