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[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Catskill Confidential: Cappelli downplays loss of brownfields suit

Middletown Times Herald-Record (NY)
April 21, 2009

Concord owner Louis Cappelli recently lost a court challenge to expand 
the brownfield cleanup areas at the site of his planned $1 billion 
Entertainment City project.

Cappelli's Concord Associates has been trying for two years to get an 
additional 20.57 acres included in the brownfield program, which 
provides tax incentives for cleaning up and then investing in areas with 
environmental hazards.

On March 31, Judge Burton Ledina sided with the Department of 
Environmental Conservation to deny Cappelli's request to add acres to 
his brownfields. He already has 14.53 acres enrolled, qualifying him for 
millions in tax breaks.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090421/COMM/904210312/-1/NEWS

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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