The Borough of Carlisle, Pennsylvania

with us. That was one of the ways that made this whole project possible. These partnerships and cooperative relationships helped facilitate the planning and now the redevelopment that’s underway. “Some other partners were the state and the federal government with their financing and also with their support; the state, in particular, in helping us navigate through some of these remediation efforts. Some of these sites were very complicated with some environmentally problematic issues related to them. They also provided $2 million to one of the sites for demolition and some remediation. They’ve been very important partners. The Cumberland County Economic Development folks are also helping us. “Then, there’s all of the citizen involvement. There wasn’t any controversy during the master planning process; there were questions, there were disagreements, but through that almost two-year process, we came up with a Master Plan that was unanimously approved by our mayor and council and I wasn’t aware of any significant opposition to it. That also made it helpful for the developers to come in and get all their approvals.” “With all of those relationships - from the federal government all the way down to local businesses - and all of those contributors, it’s really made the economics work,” Candland is quick to add. “Because, otherwise, these properties would have been completely upside-down, economically. The cost to get these things ready for redevelopment, and then the redevelopment itself, just never could have been afforded. For a small town, this has been a pretty complex project and there’s no way in the world that the Borough, itself, could ever have handled this. So, in order for us to even attempt a project like this, much less be successful, it required an awful lot of other entities.” Candland goes on to give a status report on the current state of site development and potential uses of each property: “The former Carlisle Tire & Wheel site is getting developed, right now. It’s probably about halfway done and the development is primarily going to be residential with a little bit of commercial. One of the priorities in the Master Plan was to have a variety of housing types – higher, middle, and lower income. So, this site has some lower income, as well as some other rental apartments, and about 20,000 square feet of commercial. “The Tyco site, which is the smallest site, was a former electronics manufacturing plant. One of our other partners, Cumberland County, has a development arm – they call it the Real Estate Collaborative. This group has taken ownership of the Tyco site and they’ve got a wonderful mixed- use development that is planned. They’ve gotten their preliminary approvals. They’re finishing up the demolition, right now, and early next year, THE BOROUGH OF CARL I SLE , PENNSYLVANI A