[CPEO-BIF] Master Cleaners site, Guilderland, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Proposed sale of land at Foundry and Western falls through 

by Elizabeth Floyd Mair
Altamont Enterprise (NY)
October 5, 2017


GUILDERLAND - On the brink of approval, a developer for senior housing is backing out, concerned over the cost of pollution cleanup.

Ronald DeVito of The Genitor Organization in Melville, New York, the developer who had been interested in buying the derelict properties at the southeast corner of Foundry Road and Western Avenue, says that the total cost of cleaning up the soil and groundwater was not made clear enough by the current owner, Charles Bohl Incorporated. The process of cleaning the groundwater in particular could take a prohibitively long time, DeVito added.

He said that he remains interested in the property, including the former dry cleaner’s at 2314 Western Ave., but cannot take on financial responsibility for all the steps involved in preparing the land for development, without knowing how much the cleanup will cost.

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For the entire article, see
https://altamontenterprise.com/10052017/proposed-sale-land-foundry-and-western-falls-through

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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