Article: United States: Oak Ridge mall project gets $5 million stimulus grant.

Byline: sanjayV03

The would-be redevelopers of the troubled Oak Ridge Mall have won a federal stimulus award of up to $5 million for a geothermal technology demonstration project at the site.

The almost-empty mall has been renamed Oak Ridge City Center, but plans for it to be converted into a downtown village of shops and anchor stores have languished for seven years.

According to a news release Tuesday from the developers, the Department of Energy's Geothermal Technologies Program in Golden, Colo., will manage the geothermal project.

The project's goals: reduce the front-end costs of geothermal heat pump systems, which use the earth's ...

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