[CPEO-BIF] Monoco Oil asphalt plant site, Pittsford, New York

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pittsford canal apartment complex close to getting OK from village

by Megan DeMarco
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY)
September 22, 2012

PITTSFORD - A vacant brownfield site on the Erie Canal is inching  
closer to seeing a major makeover that has been in the works for years.

After two years of public meetings - some contentious - and several  
phases of a plan to turn an old Monoco Oil asphalt plant into a  
swanky apartment complex, village officials will likely approve a  
special use permit for the site in October. A public hearing is set  
for Monday.

The developer, Pittsford Canalside Properties LLC, would still need  
approval from the planning and architectural preservation boards, but  
Mayor Bob Corby said he expects both will allow the project to  
proceed. Construction on the $30 million project could begin as early  
as the spring, after environmental cleanup of the site at 75 Monroe  
Ave. is complete.

"This project is going to be award-winning," said Chris DiMarzo,  
president of Mark IV Enterprises, which owns Pittsford Canalside  
Properties. "We envision turning an (eyesore) literally right now - a  
place where Pittsford students go and do drugs and start fires - to a  
reclaimed residential community at the gateway to the village."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/A2/20120922/ 
NEWS01/309220039/pittsford-75-monroe-avenue-mark-IV-brownfield

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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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