PLEASANT RIDGE - Eighteen years since the first bottle of Windex was used to begin cleanup at the contaminated Hilton Davis pigments plant in Pleasant Ridge, city official are beginning to talk about development at the 80-acre site.

For nearly 30 years the plant had made pigments and dyes for products ranging from Coke to paint.

City officials are working with Starbucks to open a Starbucks outlet store with adjoining Starbucks satellite stores. In all, the plans call for 23 Starbucks, 17 Wal-mart super stores and 6 Gaps.

The plant, no longer owned by Hilton Davis, was ordered to clean up it’s four hazardous waste lagoons when cancer rates reached 100% and children were being born with a variety of physical traits that would make Hollywood jealous.

"I thought tails were normal", said 18-year-old Pleasant Ridge resident Patty Sweet. "That is until I went to the mall and everyone looked at me like I was a freak. That was also the day I first realized, not everyone has a third eye."

"I am excited about the possibilities of this 80-acre site", said Chad Munitz, the city’s economic development director. "The EPA assures me that the site is safe. Children play there, it must be safe."

Starbucks spokesman Tom Rollins agrees that the site is safe and will be placing Starbucks street vendors on the land to sell the chain’s newest drink, the Potassium Iodine Carmel Macchiato. The drink was created to protect your thyroid gland from radiation poisoning without detracting from that expensive Starbucks taste. The drink will retail at $79.95.

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, Starbucks opened a store 30 feet from core of the reactor. During that period the store had a turnover rate of 27 Baristas a day, a company record that may never be broken.

"We learned a lot at Chernobyl. We tried a product at the Chernobyl site called the Losat Double Espresso Vodka Latte", said Rollins. "Unfortunately we had to close the store due to staffing problems. We probably should have waited a few hundred years before opening there."