[CPEO-BIF] "Razing Eyesores" in Lockport and Cambria, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agency to fund razing of eyesores

By Thomas J. Prohaska
Buffalo News (NY)
May 23, 2011

LOCKPORT - Vacant buildings in Lockport and Cambria could be crashing  
to the ground soon, thanks to funding from the Niagara County  
Brownfield Development Corp.

The county agency, using its supply of funding from the federal  
government, has awarded $400,000 to Cambria and $200,000 to Lockport  
for cleanup and demolitions of some long-running eyesores.

In Lockport, 71 Gooding St., the former Kohl Motorcycle building,  
owned by the city because of unpaid taxes, is targeted for razing.

In Cambria, half a dozen old buildings on what used to be the  
Lockport Air Force Station, a radar control facility for the long- 
defunct Nike Missile base, may be bulldozed.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/lockport/article430818.ece

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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