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Background
The City of Southfield is a major commercial and business center in Southeast Michigan. Located in Oakland County just outside Detroit, the city is home to over one hundred Fortune 500 companies and firms in a variety of industries including automotive, advanced manufacturing, and information technology. A large automotive and supply company planned to build its new corporate headquarters on a 4.5-acre brownfield site recently acquired in Southfield. Previous occupants of the site included a research laboratory with documented hazardous substance waste streams and onsite waste disposal, as well as an automotive maintenance business that installed underground fuel storage tanks onsite. The property developer designed a 24,000 square foot structure to house the company’s new headquarters on the property, but construction could not commence until the site’s suspected vapor contamination issues from the previous occupants were properly identified and resolved.
