[CPEO-BIF] South Buffalo Charter School, Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Charter School Moving Ahead with Expansion Plans Despite Rejection of  
Tax-Incentives

By Ed Reilly
WKBW TV-7 News (Buffalo, NY)
June 19, 2013

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) A spokesperson for the South Buffalo Charter  
School says expansion plans will go forward despite having a one- 
million dollar tax-credit package denied by the Erie County  
Industrial Development Agency (ECIDA).

South Buffalo Charter School is looking to build a new $20-million  
dollar elementary school on the site of a brownfield at 154 South  
Ogden Street in Buffalo.

...

Brownfield cleanup has already begun on the 27-acres of land where  
the school will be built.

According to information posted on the New York State Department of  
Environmental Conservation website, the land was a former industrial  
dump site and includes volatile organic compounds, polycyclic  
aromatic hydrocarbons, and heavy metals to depths of 17-feet below  
the surface.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/Charter-School-Moving-Ahead-with- 
Expansion-Plans-Despite-Rejection-of-Tax-Incentives-212249091.html

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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
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