"Cleanup aid would help develop 2 sites" The Columbus Dispatch

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Robert Vitale
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Columbus wants $6 million from the state to clean two former industrial sites where developers want to build homes, offices and shops.

City Council members OK’d applications last night for Clean Ohio Fund grants to clear contamination from 65 acres on the South Side and in the Weinland Park neighborhood east of Ohio State University.

The South Side land, where Techneglas Inc. closed a TVglass plant in 2004, would be remade with office, retail and light-industrial space.

In Weinland Park, where the former Columbus Coated Fabrics plant has been vandalized and burned repeatedly since its closing in 2001, developers plan 500 homes...