[CPEO-BIF] "Suffolk [County, New York] nonprofit, Security Dodge at impasse over tax liens, use of Merrick Road site"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Suffolk nonprofit, Security Dodge at impasse over tax liens, use of Merrick Road site

By Denise M. Bonilla
Long Island Newsday (NY)
July 29, 2019 

A Suffolk County nonprofit is in a standoff with an Amityville auto dealership over a contaminated property that the company does not own but is using to store vehicles.

Officials with the nonprofit Suffolk County Landbank Corp. have been trying to get 344 Merrick Rd. into its program since last year. The landbank was founded by county officials in 2013 to facilitate the cleanup and redevelopment of tax-delinquent brownfield sites.

The half-acre property between Wood and Bryan avenues once had a gas station there but was abandoned by owner RAI Realty Co. in the early 1990s, officials said. For more than two decades, Security Dodge has been storing vehicles on the site.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/security-dodge-landbank-vehicle-storage-contamination-brownfields-tax-liens-1.34296986

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





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