2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:55:55 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Whole Foods Gowanus site, Brooklyn, New York
 
[Note: The proposed Superfund listing of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal applies only to the canal itself and not adjacent properties. - LS]

Whole Foods Gowanus site to be clean by April

By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Heights Courier (NY)
February 23, 2010

Whole Foods remains intent on developing its property along the Gowanus Canal, a toxic site that should be cleaned by April, an environmental consultant for the company said this week.

"Everything I know is that Whole Foods is committed to putting a Whole Foods on the site," said John Bogdanski, a senior project manager with the consulting firm BL Companies.

Bogdanski told Community Board 6's Environmental Protection Committee this week that Whole Foods is in the final phase of a cleanup that began in 2005 at the site, Third Avenue and Third Street.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2010/02/23/brooklyn_heights_courier/news/courier-yn_brooklyn_heights-6wholeupdate.txt

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Lenny Siegel
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