[CPEO-BIF] South Buffalo Brownfield Opportunity Area (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Developers plot re-use of city brownfield

by James Fink
Business First of Buffalo (NY)
August 5, 2008

A sprawling, 1,900-acre series of parcels that at one time was all 
industrial land could become Buffalo's newest development zone.

The land, dubbed the South Buffalo Brownfield Opportunity Area, is eyed 
for myriad projects ranging from Class A office space to high-tech, 
research incubators. That was the advance word from the planning team 
hired by the Buffalo Urban Development Corp. to look at potential uses 
for the land, which extends from the Buffalo River south to the 
Buffalo-Lackawanna border.

BUDC directors got a sneak preview of a detailed development master plan 
Tuesday morning.

The land includes five active rail lines and 800 parcels. Sitting along 
its southern boundary is the Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park, which has 
already welcomed several new tenants, and 185 acres of land the city 
acquired along the Buffalo River.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2008/08/04/daily16.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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