Before the top performing players on the Champions Tour and every day golfers ever teed up a Titleist on the 14th fairway at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor that landmass was once actually on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund Site list. While that is still the case, the agency now points to the site with considerable pride as a prime example of redevelopment on their newly developed list of Superfund National Priorities List of sites, “showing the greatest expected redevelopment and commercial potential.”
Congressman Fred Upton, reflecting on what was the former Aircraft Components facility site along the Paw Paw River and a similar Kalamazoo River site of the former Allied Paper Company in Kalamazoo, says: “This is good news for Benton Harbor and Kalamazoo.” The St. Joe Republica adds, “While we gather further information on what, specifically, this will mean it’s still important to recognize the significance of our local Superfund sites earning this new designation. It shows there is a clear priority to expedite work on these Superfund sites for the betterment of our economy and for commercial development. I’ll continue to work with our local folks as well as state and national leaders as we finish up our efforts on these Superfund sites.”
The EPA site sheet says, in part, “This once-blighted property is now a vital commercial and recreational resource in the community.” To see the rest of what the EPA has to say about the old Aircraft Components site, which now not only sports the 14th hole at Harbor Shores but also expansion of the North Pier Brewing Company across the street, you can click the link below:
For more information on the Superfund National Priorities please click the link below:
https://www.epa.gov/superfund-redevelopment-initiative/superfund-redevelopment-focus-list
