[CPEO-BIF] Lighthouse Pointe proposal, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New high-end housing project along Genesee River good for community

Opinion by Charles Morgan
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
January 31, 2009

Can you imagine - an esplanade along the river with shops, restaurants 
and an amphitheater? A hotel and condominiums with a beautiful view of 
Lake Ontario. Sound like Toronto?

No, this would be Lighthouse Pointe, which my late father and I have 
planned for 47 acres on the Genesee River.

We have been stymied by environmental contamination, since the site is 
an old city landfill on the Department of Environmental Conservation 
list of hazardous substance sites. Groundwater and soil are heavily 
contaminated.

We applied to the Brownfield Cleanup Program to have the DEC supervise 
cleanup that might cost $8 million, and give us liability releases. 
Without this, banks will not finance the project, and the Health 
Department will not give approvals.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090131/OPINION02/901310319/1008/OPINION

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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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