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City Urges Commercial Development for Brownfield

TROY, MI-Masco Corp. is spending more than $3.6 million to clean up chemicals on a site its owned for nearly 30 years and hopes for state approval to redevelop a former industrial plant along Livernois Road.

By Robert Carr | Updated on December 06, 2002

TROY, MI-The city has approved a brownfield plan for land owned by theMasco Corp., and has asked the company to consider building a commercial facility on the property. Masco bought the former Davis Manufacturing Co. in 1973, which operated from 1940 to 1973.

After purchasing the property, Masco officials say, it was discovered that trichloroethylene (TCE) had been released into soil and groundwater on the site.

Davis had begun properly handling its chemicals at the time of sale, according to city officials.

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