From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:33:36 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Hotel planned for Souh Bronx, New York |
SoBRO to develop Mott Haven hotel Vito Signorile Bronx Times-Reporter (NY) January 9, 2011Plans 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. ... For the entire article, see http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2011/01/09/bronx/bronxtimes-yn_bronx_front_page-1-sobrohotel.txt -- 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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