[CPEO-BIF] Poughkeepsie (NY) waterfront

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brownfields get new life with state incentives

Wayne A. Hall
Middletown Times Herald-Record (NY)
June 10, 2007

Poughkeepsie — Talk to people in the business of rescuing old industrial 
sites from the taint of pollution — the so-called brownfields — and 
Joseph Bonura Jr.'s estimated $50 million Poughkeepsie waterfront remake 
gets the highest kind of praise.

"He's got just a terrific project," says Newburgh City Manager Jean-Ann 
McGrane, herself a former regional director of the state Department of 
Environmental Conservation — and a brownfields expert who's trying to 
lift her city out of industrial and commercial decay.

Why all the gushing? Because Bonura, a graduate of the University of 
Virginia's esteemed business school, did it smart. He made the often 
criticized brownfields program really work.

The DEC is already talking up the Bonura project to would-be brownfields 
applicants as an example of what can be done, according to industry 
insiders. The Bonuras — Joseph's brother Michael and father Joseph Sr. 
are partners — already have made a big splash with their glittering, 
44,000-square-foot Shadows on the Hudson restaurant and The Grandview 
catering business in a brick-faced, two-story complex with a copper 
patina roof overlooking the Hudson River about a quarter-of-mile south 
of the Mid-Hudson Bridge. It's got 300 parking spaces, a 14-foot-wide TV 
in Shadows, a ballroom the size of an infield in Grandview with an 
8,000-square-foot kitchen.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070610/BIZ/706100348

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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