[CPEO-BIF] Former Trico Plant, Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminants removed from Trico building, paving way for redevelopment

By Mark Sommer
Buffalo News (NY)
December 26, 2019 
  
Cleanup of a brownfield site at the former Trico Plant has been completed, opening the door for one of the city's largest redevelopment projects to move forward in 2020.

Plans by the Krog Group call for 135 studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom market-rate apartments, 12,000-square-feet of retail and food space, 105 extended-stay hotel rooms operated by Buffalo-based Hart Hotels, and 230 indoor parking spaces.

The State Department of Environmental Conservation, which provided oversight, said some 171 tons of paint debris generated from hydro-blasting, six drums of various oils and 51 oil-filled electrical equipment units were removed from five industrial buildings, the tallest of which stands 10 stories.


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For the entire article, see
https://buffalonews.com/2019/12/25/contaminants-removed-from-trico-paving-way-for-redevelopment/

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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
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