Article: INTEREST IN RAIL YARD RISES.(Real Estate & Housing)(A shortage of industrial land lures potential buyers despite problems with site)

Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard

Developers want to get their hooks into the 250 acres of real estate formerly known as the Union Pacific rail yard in north Eugene.

They're meeting with city planners, talking to the railroad's real estate division and figuring out how to avoid - or cope - with the age-old pollution on the site.

Potential buyers are going about their research quietly. City and railroad officials refuse to say who's doing the inquiring, but they will say that interest in the semi-mothballed site has picked up in recent weeks.

An industrial developer is eyeing about 100 acres of the yard, a Eugene land broker said. ...

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