[CPEO-BIF] North End site, Niagara Falls, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A plan for Highland brownfield site - then action

By Mark Scheer
Niagara Gazette
March 22, 2011
NIAGARA FALLS - The first in a series of planned public meetings  
about the future of a high-profile North End brownfield site  
generated some debate about whether the process would ever lead to  
tangible benefits for the community.

During a meeting Tuesday at the Doris Jones Family Resource Building,  
consultants working on a plan to redevelop the so-called Tract II  
parcel off Highland Avenue encouraged residents to stay focused on  
what could happen if the right partners are found to resurrect land  
that has been off limits to the community for decades.

"Why shouldn't we prepare ourselves for opportunity?" said James  
Pitts, head of J.W. Pitts Planning and Development, LLC, one of the  
consultants involved in the Tract II planning process. "We don't want  
to just lay down and die. I don't. We want to present the best plan.  
We want to develop a planning process that has the interests of the  
community in mind."


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For the entire article, see
http://niagara-gazette.com/local/x977558462/A-plan-for-Highland- 
brownfield-site-then-action

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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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