[CPEO-BIF] Riverbend project, Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cuomo to announce $225 million clean-energy development in Buffalo that could create 850 jobs
Energy research campus to create 850 local jobs


By Stephen T. Watson, Tom Precious
Buffalo News (NY)
November 21, 2013

In the largest down payment on his Buffalo billion-dollar commitment, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo this morning will announce the creation of a clean-energy research campus on 90 acres of land along the Buffalo River that will include two initial tenants moving from California to create 850 jobs.

The RiverBend project calls for $225 million in state funding to build the first of six buildings on a brownfield site that Cuomo administration officials believe will become the center of some of the nation’s leading clean and green energy research.

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The project being unveiled today will be constructed on the former Republic Steel and Donner Hanna Coke site.

The previously contaminated industrial property, which is now vacant, takes up more than 200 acres in total, bounded by the Buffalo River to the north, Tifft Street to the south and a set of railroad tracks and the Tifft Nature Preserve to the west.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/cuomo-to-announce-225-million-clean-energy-development-in-buffalo-that-could-create-850-jobs-20131120

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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