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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Lighthouse Point project wins court case with DEC

Erica Bryant
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 25, 2007

IRONDEQUOIT - The State Supreme Court has ruled that the state 
Department of Environmental Conservation was wrong to exclude the 
proposed Lighthouse Pointe development from the State Brownfield Cleanup 
Program.

Lighthouse Pointe Property Associates LLC aims to build upscale condos, 
townhouses, restaurants and a promenade on the site of a former city 
dump bordering the Genesee River on the eastern side of the Col. Patrick 
O'Rorke Bridge in Irondequoit. The project is expected to cost about 
$200 million.

The developers say it could cost between $4 million and $8 million to 
rehabilitate the site, which contains hazardous waste. They applied for 
admission to the state Brownfield Cleanup Program, which offers tax 
credits and other incentives to encourage the re-use of contaminated 
property.

In June, the DEC declared the project ineligible for cleanup incentives, 
saying that the site's level of contamination was minimal enough that it 
would not complicate redevelopment.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071225/NEWS01/712250323/1002/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
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