[CPEO-BIF] Broome County, New York rail corridor

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Old factories, new ideas
Engineers hired to study blighted 1.5-mile corridor


By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
March 3, 2008

A path to Broome County's economic future runs along a rail corridor 
littered with relics of its industrial past.

That is the thinking of Broome County officials, who this week will 
present the beginning stages of a revitalization plan for the "Endicott 
Johnson Industrial Spine," a mile-and-a-half stretch of manufacturing 
ruins sprawling from Baldwin Street in Johnson City to Glenwood Avenue 
in Binghamton.

Using a $155,000 state grant, county planners have hired engineers from 
Clough Harbour & Associates to study the area, a mix of commercial and 
residential neighborhoods around a core of obsolete and dilapidated 
factory buildings, and prepare a preliminary plan for its renewal.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080303/NEWS01/803030330

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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