[CPEO-BIF] St. Paul Street school site, Rochester, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

St. Paul Street school site owner seeks brownfield status, tax credits

Steve Orr and David Andreatta
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY)
May 26, 2009

The owner of a former city factory that housed two schools in recent 
years = and will host a third this fall — has asked the state to declare 
the site a brownfield and provide tax credits to clean it.

Financial assistance for the environmental cleanup could further a 
proposed $40 million redevelopment of the St. Paul Street complex that 
could also include offices for up to 800 Monroe County government 
workers and emergency housing for several hundred low-income people, 
according to the brownfield application.

Environmental tests of the former Bausch & Lomb buildings at 690 St. 
Paul St. conducted last summer, before the Rochester School District 
moved 1,000 students from School 33 to the site in September, revealed 
traces of trichloroethene, or TCE, in the air, soil and groundwater.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090526/NEWS01/905260331/1002/NEWS/Owner+of+St.+Paul+Street+school+site+seeks+brownfield+status++tax+credits

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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
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