Depending on who you talk with, either the Bannister Federal Complex is either an "ideal" site for the federal government to dump store thousands of tons of mercury waste or a development-killing, really, really bad idea (just ask council members John Sharp and Ed Ford or Congressman Emanuel Cleaver). The plant is already a toxic nightmare (according to the Star), "polluted with cancer-causing materials such as petroleum products, beryllium, radiation waste and PCBs." Barring a clean up of that mess -- and it won't come cheap -- the site isn't going to be getting any new development. Until then, watch out for the ripped guy with the mop.
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