[CPEO-BIF] Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Gowanus lounge: City chooses greenspace at old brownfield

By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper
April 19, 2008

The city has chosen a developer to turn a contaminated Gowanus property 
into hundreds of apartments and a waterfront esplanade — and the winning 
bidder is already looking to expand the scope of the project.

The Gowanus Green Partnership - a collaboration by the Hudson Companies, 
the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corp., the Fifth Avenue 
Committee, the Bluestone Organization and the Jonathan Rose Companies - 
plans to build 774 units of mixed-income housing, storefronts, community 
group space and an open area on the so-called "Public Place" site, a 
former gas plant roughly bounded by Smith, Fifth and Huntington streets 
and the canal. The group is also negotiating with the owner of a 
warehouse just to the south of the Public Place site, sources told The 
Brooklyn Paper - a deal that could almost double the size of the project.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/16/31_16_gowanus_lounge_city.html

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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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