[CPEO-BIF] Republic Steel site, Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City to buy former Republic Steel brownfields site
$4.6 million price tag OK’d for 185 acres

By Stephen T. Watson
Buffalo News (NY
November 10, 2007

The City of Buffalo plans to spend $4.6 million to buy a formerly 
contaminated industrial property in South Buffalo and is trying to 
attract commercial investment to the site, city officials announced Friday.

The city is buying the 185-acre former Republic Steel property from 
Steelfields, the partnership that has spent $19 million over the past 
five years cleaning the brownfield site.

Mayor Byron W. Brown, other city officials and Steelfields 
representatives said acquiring the site will boost the city’s economic 
development efforts.

...

It sits next to Hickory Woods, the contaminated subdivision whose 
residents have fought for years to win a buyout plan to allow them to move.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/203671.html?imw=Y

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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