[CPEO-BIF] Niagara Iron Works, North Tonawanda, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield cleanup slated for North Tonawanda apartment site

By Thomas Prohaska
Buffalo News
April 20, 2013

NORTH TONAWANDA - Once a brownfield cleanup is completed, an Erie  
County real estate development firm plans to build about 110 units of  
apartments and town homes on a Niagara River waterfront site.

Lucian Visone of Clarence, who with Jeffry Rockoff of Amherst owns  
Rock One Development, presented the idea to the North Tonawanda  
Planning Board in the past month.

Visone said he intends to seek the necessary approval for his project  
while the environmental cleanup is going on.

The 5.95-acre site was home to Niagara Iron Works, later Tonawanda  
Iron Works, from 1886 to 1972, according to Kristen Davidson of the  
state Department of Environmental Conservation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130420/ 
CITYANDREGION/130429866/1003

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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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