[CPEO-BIF] New York "DEC clears Ballston Spa brownfield for development"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC clears Ballston Spa brownfield for development


by Wendy Liberatore
Albany Times-Union (NY)
February 21, 2020

BALLSTON SPA – A building once deemed a brownfield site is now cleaned up and ready for development as a cornerstone to the village’s revitalization.

Mayor Larry Woolbright said the former Haight/American Hide on Bath Street, also known as the Angelica laundry, has been cleared by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and primed to become a mixed-use building – commercial on the first floor with condos on the second.

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In 2015, DEC told the Times Union that the 6.3 acre site was contaminated by toxic heavy metals and chemicals likely associated with its use by the tannery, which closed in 1960.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/DEC-clears-Ballston-Spa-brownfield-for-development-15074270.php

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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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