[CPEO-BIF] Lighthouse Pointe, Irondequoit, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Lighthouse Pointe moves forward in Irondequoit

Erica Bryant
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (NY)
December 16, 2007

IRONDEQUOIT - Town officials and Lighthouse Pointe Property Associates 
LLC have entered a pre-development agreement for a major waterfront 
housing project along a troubled section of the Genesee River.

Lighthouse Pointe developers would like to build upscale condos, 
townhomes, restaurants and a promenade on the site of a former city dump 
that lies on the eastern side of the Col. Patrick O'Rorke Bridge.

...

In June, the state Department of Environmental Conservation declared the 
proposed project ineligible for the Brownfield Cleanup tax credits and 
other incentives offered to encourage the re-use of contaminated sites. 
The DEC said that the project was rejected because the site is a former 
solid waste landfill, rather than a specific source of hazardous waste 
or petroleum contamination.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/NEWS01/712160327/1002/NEWS

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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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