[CPEO-BIF] Savarino Companies projects, Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield Compromise Praised in Western New York
Upstate developers and lawmakers praise brownfield tax credit compromise that confines the toughest reforms to New York City.

By Justin Sondel 
City & State (NY)
April 21, 2015 


Carts full of concrete rattled through the cavernous bottom floor of a vacant warehouse building in South Buffalo and out to a dumpster earlier this month, as about 90 workers chipped away at a rehabilitation project, with the first tenants set to move in this summer.

The project at 500 Seneca St. will see a 300,000-square-foot former industrial complex—which has been vacant off and on for long periods of time since 1958—converted into a business and residential space in the heart of a once-bustling manufacturing corridor. Dust-covered cherry and pine floors, with pools of water dotting the expansive soon-to-be offices, will be varnished and glimmering.

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For the entire article,  see
http://www.cityandstateny.com/2/83/energy-and-environment/the-clean-up.html#.VTmnrmafObg

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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