[CPEO-BIF] Flushing waterfront, Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State takes $1.5M step to revitalize waterfront

by Liz Rhoades
Queens Chronicle (NY)
October 22, 2009

	
One of downtown Flushing's dirtiest sites - the Flushing River 
waterfront - is finally getting the attention it deserves. A $1.5 
million state Brownfields grant will start the cleanup process with a 
study, eventually helping to revitalize the area.

The money is going to the Flushing Willets Point Corona Local 
Development Corp., headed by Claire Shulman. Her group led the fight for 
the mayor's Willets Point development plan.

Contacted Friday, Shulman said revitalizing the waterfront will affect 
both the downtown Flushing side as well as Willets Point, on the other 
side of the river. The land to be examined is from College Point 
Boulevard to the river and Roosevelt Avenue to Northern Boulevard.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20381259&BRD=2731&PAG=461&dept_id=574902&rfi=8

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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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