[CPEO-BIF] "Public invited to comment on Troy [New York] brownfield application"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Public invited to comment on Troy brownfield application

Brownfield sought to clean up spot on First St.

Troy Record
August 16, 2018

Troy, N.Y. - The public has the chance to comment on a Brownfield Cleanup Program Application for 244-246 First Street, the site of a proposed 84-unit apartment building. 

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The Community Builders, a non-profit real estate development company based in Boston, wishes to build a four story building on a two-acre lot currently occupied by Siewert Equipment, and ProTek Recycling. The existing buildings would be torn down to make room for “Poestenkill Place,” named for the nearby Poestenkill Canal.

According to DEC, the site sits on 1.88 acres and has three buildings. Since the 1800s, the plot has seen numerous industrial and commercial uses. It once had a railroad bed going across it, as late as the 1970s. There was once the Reynolds-Charlou Foundry operating there, a stoveworks, a junkyard (1950s) the HJ Hardenburgh Feed & Fertilizer company (1950s and 1960s), Hoffman Building Materials Corp., a building materials warehouse (1950s to 1980s). More recently a construction equipment rental company, and a limousine service called it home.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.troyrecord.com/general-news/20180816/public-invited-to-comment-on-troy-brownfield-application

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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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