[CPEO-BIF] Former Concord Resort Hotel, Kiamesha Lake, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Concord property to get cleaned
Brownfields targeted at hotel site

By Victor Whitman
Middletown Times Herald-Record (NY)
June 3, 2011

KIAMESHA LAKE - Concord owner Louis Cappelli's company is about to  
resume cleanup of the contaminated brownfield areas at the former  
Concord Resort Hotel - a first sign of life at the abandoned  
construction site in nearly three years.

The Department of Environmental Conservation announced last month  
that the company, Concord Kiamesha LLC, was about to clean five  
areas, a project that became derailed in winter 2008. The state  
accepted 14.5 acres of the hotel site into the Brownfield Cleanup  
Program in 2005 and 20.5 acres in 2009.

Cappelli and Mohegan Sun recently announced a partnership to revive  
Cappelli's vision of a $600 million racino and hotel resort on the  
footprint of what, for decades, had been the Catskills' largest  
hotel. The project famously collapsed after Cappelli couldn't get  
financing at the recession's bottom.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110603/NEWS/ 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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