NewCold is a European-based company<\/a> that plans to locate one of its automated warehouse and cold-chain logistics companies at the site.<\/p>\nHowever, it has one year to clear the hurdles of zoning and planning commission approvals.<\/p>\n
William Heim, city manager, said the sale has been under discussion for some time.<\/p>\n
“It’s now\u00a0coming to fruition where we do have an agreement of sale with this particular company,” Heim said. “There will be a period of due diligence. But this will begin the sale of the property which we are all waiting on.”<\/p>\n
Mayor Eddie Moran said the sale would not have been possible without the River Road extension, which is now nearing completion.<\/p>\n
“I think this will be a very good thing, and hopefully, we will be seeing that site developed in the relatively near future,” Moran said. “This goes with the city’s vision to continue to improve and create opportunities \u2014 employment opportunities\u00a0\u2014 and the usage of our lands that are not being used currently.”<\/p>\n
Pastor Evelyn Morrison, a frequent commentor, said she had concerns about the land being sold.<\/p>\n
“Does the buyer know that this is a brownfield, that it is 50 acres of contaminated land?” Morrison asked. “These are serious contaminants that are in the ground, and the air, soil and water is going to affect the surrounding area. We need a toxic trespass ordinance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Twenty-three years after the former Dana Corporation closed its plant in northwest Reading, new life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[112472,2005,3933,112473,112474,128,130,129,13692,33486,1028],"class_list":["post-266604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-dana-corporation","tag-eddie-moran","tag-evelyn-morrison","tag-manufacturing-site","tag-newcold-usa-real-estate-holding-llc","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-redevelopment-authority","tag-schuylkill-river","tag-william-heim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}