[CPEO-BIF] La Terraza, Melrose Common, South Bronx, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Bronx’s La Terraza Gets Citywide Recognition

By Jacqueline Hlavenka
GlobeSt.com
May 26, 2010

NEW YORK CITY - Almost 20 years ago, Debbie Kenyon, COO of Larchmont,  
NY-based L+M Development, remembers the burnt out buildings,  
shuttered stores and contaminated sites in the 35-block Melrose  
Commons urban renewal area of the South Bronx. But today, the area  
has turned a corner, now home to La Terraza, an eight-story 107-unit  
affordable housing complex at 481 E. 158th St. On Wednesday, the  
building  received the New York City Brownfield Partnership’s 2011  
“Big Apple Brownfield Award,” commending L+M’s environmental  
remediation and redevelopment efforts here.

"It is very rewarding to take land and turn it around," Kenyon tells  
GlobeSt.com, thanking the New York State Department of Environmental  
Conservation, the New York City Office of Environmental Remediation  
and the NYC Brownfield Partnership for providing oversight and  
support of the cleanup efforts. "I have seen the neighborhood change  
dramatically to now."

Years ago, the site fell under the city's Department of Housing  
Preservation and Development’s Cornerstone program, a municipally run  
multifamily initiative designed to attract mixed-income development  
on city-owned land. Before construction began in 2009, the largely- 
vacant site contained an abandoned single-story building previously  
utilized as a dry cleaner, store and upholstery business. After L+M,  
Procida Realty and Construction Corp., We Stay/Nos Quedamos Committee  
Inc., and Melrose Associates formed a joint venture, they applied and  
were accepted into the New York State Department of Environmental  
Conservation's Brownfield Cleanup Program.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.globest.com/news/1922_1922/newyork/310601-1.html

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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
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