The Shannondale (née Electrohome, 152 Shanley St) | 8 fl | U/C

[danbrotherston]

Would the city be able to avoid cleaning up the site if it turned it into a public park?

If the site required environmental remediation, I doubt they could turn it into a park.

As zanate points out, there is a perhaps similar site near the UW Pharmacy building, at that site, it was explained to us that the contamination means it isn't safe for human occupation...the city hoped there might be some leeway in terms of building a trail and arguing that there would be nobody would stay there, but a park would be right out, because it's intended to stay in.