[CPEO-BIF] "Hudson Valley Lighting will not build $16 million facility in Newburgh, " New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hudson Valley Lighting will not build $16 million facility in Newburgh


By Leonard Sparks
Middletown Times Herald-Record (NY)
February 24. 2015

CITY OF NEWBURGH – Hudson Valley Lighting is aborting its two-year- 
old plan to build a $16 million facility on a contaminated former  
landfill in the City of Newburgh, putting the end to a project that  
had drawn federal and state grants and promised to keep jobs in the  
city.

Owner David Littman and Newburgh officials confirmed Monday the high- 
end lighting company’s decision to abandon plans for the state- 
designated Brownfield site. As part of the Brownfield program, HVL  
stood to reap millions worth of tax credits for restoring the  
property to commercial use.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20150224/NEWS/150229675/101019

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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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