[CPEO-BIF] Hotel planned for Souh Bronx, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

SoBRO to develop Mott Haven hotel


Vito Signorile
Bronx Times-Reporter (NY)
January 9, 2011

Plans to build a hotel in Mott Haven creates the possibility of new job 
opportunities in an improving economy.

An empty brownfield lot right off the Major Deegan Expressway at E. 
135th Street and Third Avenue could be the future home of a hotel 
containing 90 rooms. The lot is presently filled with garbage and 
debris, but has been selected as one of seven empty lots by the South 
Bronx Economic Development Corporation to be cleaned and reformed. These 
lots are called brownfields they require toxin contamination remediation 
before the site can be developed.

SoBRO believes these empty lots in the south Bronx could be important 
tools in revitalizing this former industrial area of the Bronx into an 
excellent neighborhood. In 2009, Mayor Bloomberg rezoned a 30-block 
section of Mot Haven that includes these seven polluted lots to promote 
types of renovations that could benefit the borough.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2011/01/09/bronx/bronxtimes-yn_bronx_front_page-1-sobrohotel.txt

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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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