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_1135 <br /> s 9nrl Brushed concrete now occupy land where Richard Tho so" <br /> Thorpe will soon begin constructing homes.. <br /> New homes will rise from the muck <br /> By Hal Silliman Sion will rise on the site of the old Italian face-to-face meetings were the best." <br /> News-Sentinel staff writer Swiss Colony winery. Building a subdivision along a river <br /> Richard Tho "It's been a long drawn out process <br /> is tough enough these days,but building <br /> rpe stands among piles of Thorpe said."I didn't think it would take a subdivision on land that was contami. <br /> soggy dirt on a 12-acre plot off Turner that long." <br /> Road. Getting to the Point where noted by a petroleum spill was nearly <br /> The mounds of dirt mark an ugly cei ed the city's blessing for thThorpe divi- impossible. <br /> pocket of Lodi but soon, thanks to Thor- sion was a dauntingIt's been an adventure,"he admitted. <br /> pe's bold gamble, bulldozers will smooth paperwork and meetgs with a of <br /> of Thorpe anddhis brory ther,Martinins in ,who when' <br /> over the pock-marked land and create government agencies. <br /> the River Pointe subdivision. "We had really Jim Thorpe Oil Inc., were hired by Ital- <br /> Six years in the making, subdivi- with theagencies,"real ood luck <br /> in deme ian Swiss Colony to remove a 15,000- <br /> theIurn to HOMES,Page 10 <br />