[CPEO-BIF] Mayor Bloomberg breaks ground on Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York project

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup Begins On Contaminated Williamsburg Site
Will Clear the Way for $15M Housing Development

bBrooklyn Eagle
April 18, 2011


WILLIAMSBURG - Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Stephen  
Goldsmith and Council Speaker Christine Quinn Monday symbolically  
broke ground on the cleanup and redevelopment of a vacant lot in  
Williamsburg.

The cleanup and redevelopment are part of the PlaNYC New York City  
Brownfield Cleanup Program, the first municipally run brownfield  
cleanup program in the nation.

Brownfields are vacant or underutilized properties whose  
redevelopment or reuse is complicated by environmental contamination.  
Another well-known Brooklyn brownfield, for example, is the Public  
Place site near the Gowanus Canal, the former site of a gas- 
manufacturing plant.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php? 
category_id=5&id=42791

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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