[CPEO-BIF] Elmira (NY) Southside

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Plan to revitalize Southside
Grants to help fund new South Main Street building facade, brownfield 
redevelopment.

By G. Jeffrey Aaron
Elmira Star-Gazette (NY)
April 3, 2008

Economic development officials hope facade work planned for a 
commercial-residential building on South Main Street and a state 
brownfield grant will kick-start redevelopment projects for Elmira's 
Southside.

Panosian Enterprises is moving ahead with plans to improve the exterior 
of its building at South Main and West Henry streets. The property 
houses Another Man's Treasure, the Barry Scott Insurance Agency and 13 
apartments on the upper floors.

Announcement of the project came on Wednesday as Elmira Downtown 
Development Executive Director Jennifer Herrick outlined her agency's 
current and future projects at EDD's annual meeting at Holiday 
Inn-Riverview.

The South Main Street project is being partly funded by a $30,000 New 
York Main Street grant, a state program that requires the property owner 
to match the amount being awarded. Bids for the work are to be returned 
next week, said Ronald Panosian of Panosian Enterprises.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.star-gazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080403/NEWS01/804030307/1001

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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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