[CPEO-BIF] South Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

News from New York State Department of State
April 23, 2009


NY Secretary of State and Mayor Brown Announce Brownfields 
Revitalization Initiative for South Buffalo

Buffalo Chosen As One of Three "Spotlight Communities" Event Is Part of 
Governor's Earth Day Meetings

ALBANY, NY (04/23/2009; 0906)(readMedia)--

As part of a state-wide tour, New York Secretary of State Lorraine 
Cortés-Vázquez joined Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Senate Environmental 
Conservation Committee Chair Antoine Thompson, and Assemblyman Mark 
Schroeder to announce the state's Brownfields Smart Growth "Spotlight 
Communities" Initiative. This initiative is designed to advance, through 
a state-local partnership, how existing state programs can support and 
complement local efforts to redevelop brownfields and simultaneously 
achieve neighborhood revitalization and smart growth objectives. Buffalo 
is one of three communities state-wide that has been selected to be a 
part of the "Spotlight Communities" Initiative.

The South Buffalo project was chosen due to the community's united 
approach to redeveloping a large area once used by the steel 
manufacturing industry, but is now largely unproductive. Extensive 
public input has led to community consensus for revitalization that 
allows for a balanced mix of land uses for development, habitat 
restoration and recreation, allowing for a higher potential to achieve 
sustainable economic growth over the long term.



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For the entire release, see
http://readme.readmedia.com/news/show/NY-Secretary-of-State-and-Mayor-Brown-Announce-Brownfields-Revitalization-Initiative-for-South-Buffalo/561979

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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