[CPEO-BIF] Buffalo Forge site, Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Buffalo looks to develop former Buffalo Forge site

Sharon Linstedt
Buffalo News (NY)
August 5, 2008

The former Buffalo Forge Co. site in Buffalo's Broadway-Fillmore 
neighborhood is being targeted as a future home to "high value 
commercial" facilities.

The Buffalo Urban Development Corp. (BUDC) today unveiled plans to 
acquire the 12.5 acre brownfields site and reclaim it as the city's next 
"shovel ready" development campus. The city development agency expects 
to pay approximately $250,000 for the site in a deal to close by the end 
of the year.

Buffalo Forge opened its doors on the site in 1877. It's successor, 
British-based fan maker Howden Group, shuttered the sprawling plant in 
1994. The manufacturing building, which covered eight acres, was razed 
in 2006 after it was determined that structural problems prevented its 
reuse.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/407647.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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