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following topics cover specifics of the project:
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Location
and Size of New Press Hall* |
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Several Parcels of Land will be
Purchased on the block bounded by East First, Stevens, East Second and
Wallenberg Streets.
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The new "Press Hall"
facility will encompass approximately 45,000 square feet
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- Replace equipment built more than 40 years ago
- Replace letterpress equipment that is one of very
few remaining in the United States
- Will modernize production and technological
capabilities to serve current print readership
- Will allow the Journal to meet modern requirements
for quantity and quality of printing, control, digital communication,
and increase energy efficiency
- Will provide better quality to necessitate the
use of sophisticated front-end imaging processes
- Will meet space needs for newspaper production,
circulation, and distribution needs
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Reasons
for the Flint Journals' Modernization Project* |
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Why
Locate on a Brownfield Site?* |
- Reuse land that is currently vacated
- Reuse land that has the stigma of being
contaminated or merely perceived as being contaminated, in this case
the land is considered "Functionally Obsolete" or
"unable to be used to adequately perform the function for which
it was intended"
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- No residence or property owners
in the City of Flint will be displaced
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Will
any home owners or residence that will be displaced?* |
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Will any
Tax Increment Revenues be used for financing the Modernization Project?* |
- None, the project will be financed
entirely by the Flint Journal
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