[CPEO-BIF] Destiny USA (Syracuse, NY) court battle

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Destiny USA wins court fight on brownfield tax credits

Rick Moriarty
Syracuse Post-Standard (NY)
June 22, 2009

Syracuse, NY -- Construction of Destiny USA has come to a halt, but the 
developer has won another court battle that could be worth tens of 
millions of dollars to the project -- if it is completed.

Earlier this month, an appeals court upheld state Supreme Court Judge 
John Cherundolo's decision ordering the state Department of 
Environmental Conservation to accept Destiny USA into the state's 
brownfield cleanup program. That would make the mall expansion project 
eligible for potentially tens of millions of dollars in state tax credits.

...

The department acknowledged there was contamination in each of the 
rejected parcels. But it said they were not eligible for the program 
because their cleanup was the subject of state and federal "enforcement" 
actions.

Among the reasons it gave for rejecting the land surrounding the mall 
was that the cost of Destiny's construction would so outweigh the cost 
of cleaning up the pollution that entry into the program was not necessary.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/destiny_usa_wins_court_fight_o.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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