[CPEO-BIF] Web-based BF sell off

["Robert Hersh" <b_hersh@verizon.net>]

Long Island Business News  
Friday, February 9, 2007

by David Reich-Hale

Suffolk County is about to go high-tech on run-down properties.

The county is creating a Web site to make it easier to businesses to
identify brownfield sites available for purchase.

The site, to be created by Suffolk's Department of Information Technology,
will list the location of properties left polluted by businesses such as gas
station and dry cleaners. The Web site also will give the property size and
amount owed in back-taxes for each site.

The proposed Web site will go hand-in-hand with County Executive Steve
Levy's plan to sell off county-owned brownfields.

"Private parties will be able to take possession of these abandoned polluted
sites by simply paying the back taxes owed to the county," Levy said in his
state of the county address Wednesday. "They will assume the risk, provide
the cleanup and place the property back on the tax roles."

For the entire article, see:
<<http://www.libn.com/breakingNews.htm?articleID=6969#>>


Bob Hersh
CPEO


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