Brewer city officials traveled this week to the 2009 National Brownfields Conference in New Orleans to accept one of the highest accolades possible for its work in redeveloping the former Eastern Fine Paper Co. site, now home to Cianbro Corp.’s module manufacturing facility.
Each year, between 12 and 15 Brownfields projects are honored with The Phoenix Award and include at least one from each of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 10 regions. When the mill closed in 2004, the city took over the property and formed South Brewer Redevelopment LLC, using more than $2 million in Brownfields cleanup funds from the EPA and additional state funds to clean up the site for a new owner.
Brewer learned it received the award in October.
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