[CPEO-BIF] "Box-maker next-door wants to buy brownfield site on Crowley, " Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Box-maker next-door wants to buy brownfield site on Crowley

By Jonathan D. Epstein
Buffalo News (NY)
August 3, 2018 
 
 
The city agency responsible for cleaning up, managing and redeveloping brownfield properties has barely owned the a century-old former manufacturing property in Riverside for a few weeks, and the property's neighbor already is interested in buying a significant piece of the 7-acre site.

The Buffalo Urban Development Corp. bought the former sewing machine and television manufacturing plant at 308 Crowley Ave., paying $50,000 in June to take on the abandoned site.

The property includes both vacant land and about 300,000 square feet of existing but deteriorating buildings that can't be reused. Officials planned to demolish most of the brick buildings that still remain – except for a historic clock tower – before remediating and clearing the site for future use, said BUDC President Peter Cammarata.

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For the entire article see
https://buffalonews.com/2018/08/03/budc-has-interested-buyer-for-part-of-crowley-facility/

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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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