[CPEO-BIF] Buffalo, New York Riverbend project

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Riverkeeper gets grant for Riverbend

by David Bertola
Buffalo Business First (NY)
August 8, 2011

Through a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant,  
Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper has been awarded $167,000 in federal  
funding to support Phase II of the Buffalo Riverbend project.

Riverbend is adjacent to Riverbend Commerce Park, a "green" business  
hub. The South Buffalo site was formerly the home of Republic Steel  
and Donner Hanna Coke facilities.

The area's heavy industrial past contributed to contamination of the  
land and water. The Riverbend project is a component of the South  
Buffalo Brownfield Opportunity Act, which is transforming almost  
2,000 acres along the shores of Lake Erie and the Buffalo River.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2011/08/08/riverkeeper-gets- 
grant-for-riverbend.html

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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