Why corporations are turning down the Michigan Megasite? (aka marshall megasite)

The Michigan Megasite has been promoted by the MEDC and MAEDA for almost a decade at this point with no corporate interest. Yet instead of creating a viable industrial park near bigger cities with access to rail, air travel and shipping, MAEDA continues to push this small tract of land locked land.  So landlocked in fact that Marshall and Calhoun County in general, is one of the farthest points in Michigan from any of the Great Lakes.   

MAEDA promotes this Megasite as 1,600 acres, yet in reality it is much smaller (maybe as much as 300 acres smaller) as natural areas, land between the Kalamazoo River and the railroad tracks is really not usable for industry.   

There's also the contamination from the Enbridge Oil Spill in 2010.  Enbridge spent four years cleaning up nearly a million gallons of crude oil,  much of the heavy contamination occurred along the Kalamazoo River which directly abuts up to the Marshall Megasite (Michigan Megasite). Does a company want to gamble with the health of its employees?   Will the curse of the Enbridge Oil spill come back to haunt these prospective buyers?    (photo at top of page is a screen shot from the video LandMine which shows Enbridge removing contaminated islands within the Kalamazoo River)

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