[CPEO-BIF] Abandoned Yonkers, New York school site to be affordable housing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Yonkers School Turned Affordable-Housing Moves Ahead


by Matt Bultman
Yonkers Daily Voice (NY)
August 8, 2012

YONKERS, N.Y. – A plan to convert an abandoned school lot into a  
bustling affordable-housing complex is moving forward in Yonkers.

PS 6 Limited Partnership, the development coalition behind the  
project, has submitted an investigation and suggested cleanup of the  
PS 6 school-building site to the state's Department of Environmental  
Conservation.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson from Mayor Mike Spano’s office said the two  
deteriorating buildings at 33 Ashburton Ave., a designated  
brownfield, might be demolished within the next month.

Remediation and demolition of the site is part of a plan that calls  
for construction of a two-building, affordable-housing complex  
providing 50 units of senior housing and 70 units of family low- 
income housing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://yonkers.dailyvoice.com/news/yonkers-school-turned-affordable- 
housing-proceeds

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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>
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