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From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 23:53:45 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Endicott-Johnson Industrial Spine, Johnson City, New York
 
Study focuses on revitalization of Endicott-Johnson Industrial Spine

By Steve Reilly
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
October 3, 2010

JOHNSON CITY -- Eighty years ago, the mammoth brick structures dotting the village's landscape were perfect for Endicott-Johnson's state-of-the art shoe manufacturing operation.

Today, the broken windows and ramshackle exteriors on many of these buildings are testament to their own obsolescence.

While the Endicott-Johnson shoe empire buoyed the village's economy for generations, the decades after the shoe giant's demise have brought serious questions about what to do with its remains.

Last October, the county released a 151-page study on the area -- dubbed the Endicott-Johnson Industrial Spine -- that focuses on transforming a 230 acre, 1.5 mile swath of post-industrial landscape by finding new uses for some of the properties.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20101003/NEWS01/10030361/1112/Study-focuses-on-revitalization-of-Endicott-Johnson-Industrial-Spine

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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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