[CPEO-BIF] Elmira southside, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City seeks plan for old brownfields
Elmira officials want to revive Southside site that was cleaned up.

By Ray Finger
Elmira Star-Gazette (NY)
March 14, 2008

Elmira is getting a $31,850 state grant to come up with a plan aimed at 
revitalizing a 325-acre area on the Southside that was affected by 
industrial contamination.

The city is one of 53 municipalities awarded funds last week under the 
state Brownfield Opportunity Area program. The grant was announced 
Thursday by Mayor John Tonello during Elmira City Council's biweekly 
workshop.

With brownfields in that area cleaned up, a thoughtful long-term 
development plan is needed, he said.

"This is an area that has long been neglected largely because it's 
hardly usable in its current state," Tonello said.

The area is bordered by South Main Street on the west, Erie Plaza on the 
south, the Chemung River on the north and Spaulding Street on the east.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/NEWS01/803140320

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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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