[CPEO-BIF] "Community demands developers complete original cleanup agreement at Waterpointe site in Whitestone, " Queens, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Community demands developers complete original cleanup agreement at Waterpointe site in Whitestone

By Suzanne Monteverdi 
QNS (Queens, New York)
December 20, 2017 
 

Recent developments in the cleanup plans of a controversial Whitestone residential site have certain community members crying foul.

The 18-acre site at 151-45 Sixth Road called Waterpointe, which was formerly an industrial zone, has been a topic of concern in the neighborhood for over a decade. Edgestone Group LLC, the site’s current owner, is working to remediate the site — which is covered with toxic soil — under the oversight of the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) through the voluntary Brownfield Cleanup Program.

Edgestone purchased the land in 2012 for $11 million and originally sought to build 97 two-family townhouse homes and nine additional single-family houses at the site. However, the developers changed their plans to 52 single-family homes after protests from the community.


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For the entire article, see
http://qns.com/story/2017/12/19/community-demands-developers-complete-original-cleanup-agreement-waterpointe-site-whitestone/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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