From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:11:18 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Lighthouse Pointe, Irondequoit, New York |
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 -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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