Scherer Brothers Riverfront Park Site Cleanup to Cost $1 Million-Plus

From the Star Tribune:

A former lumberyard purchased for a future riverfront park contains lead, arsenic, mercury, petroleum and other hazardous compounds in its soil that will cost more than $1 million to clean up.

The 11.3-acre parcel, along the Mississippi River north of the Plymouth Avenue Bridge, is seen as a key piece of a long-range plan by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to dramatically reshape the mostly industrial corridor north of downtown into recreational green space.

Federal funds must be spent by end of 2012.

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