From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:57:41 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Jiten Hotel planned, south Bronx, New York |
Hotel group Jiten plans 80- to 90-room hotel in brownfield cleanup area
in South Bronx
BY Daniel Tucker New York Daily News December 21, 2010 There's "No Vacancy" at this vacant lot: A new 80- to 90-room hotel is coming to the South Bronx. "It's going to create jobs," said Sheetal Patel, a project manager for Jiten, the hotel operator, which hopes to break ground in early 2011. "It's going to really help the neighborhood." The hotel site is an abandoned lot just off the Major Deegan Expressway at 135th St. and Third Ave. that is littered with debris and more than 30 barrels marked "non-hazardous waste." The site is also a brownfield, contaminated and in need of environmental cleanup. It's one of six brownfields in Port Morris that an economic development group has chosen as "catalyst sites" for cleanup and redevelopment. ... For the entire article, see http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2010/12/21/2010-12-21_hotel_group_jiten_plans_80_to_90room_hotel_in_brownfield_cleanup_area_in_south_b.html -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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