[CPEO-BIF] Penn Empire site, Celoron, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brigiotta's Expanding
Project Will Clean Up Brownfield Site In Celoron

By Dennis Phillips
Jamestown Post-Journal (NY)
July 8, 2010


CELORON - A tax delinquent property that has been sitting uselessly 
along Livingston Avenue in Celoron will soon be a suitable business site 
once again.

Last month, the Chautauqua County Legislature approved the transfer of 
property that was the former Penn Empire site to Brigiotta's Farmland 
Produce & Garden Center, which the business will use to expand its 
operations. Tim Galbato, Brigiotta's spokesperson, said the six-acre 
site, at first, will be used to complement the whole fruit sales 
operation at its Fairmount Avenue location and the company's greenhouse 
business on Livingston Avenue. In the near future, however, the facility 
will be used to expand Brigiotta's wholesale produce operation by 
linking up with the railroad that travels next to the property.

"We're talking to the railroad company to put in a stop so we can bring 
in boxcar loads of potatoes for packing at the facility," Galbato said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/561820.html?nav=5018

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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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