[CPEO-BIF] Franklin Street brownfield cleanup, Olean, New York

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

MJ Painting plans to start Franklin Street brownfield cleanup next month

By RICK MILLER 
Olean Times Herald (NY)
October 6, 2021
 
OLEAN — Mike John Painting Contractor Inc., is about to start one of the biggest brownfield cleanups in the city of Olean to make way for a new paint shop and administrative offices.

Company president Mike John Sr. plans to spend $9.6 million on the brownfield cleanup and construction of a 15,000-square-foot building.

The company, which has its headquarters, warehouse and paint shop at 291 Homer St., received a promise of tax breaks worth about $730,750 over 14 years from the Cattaraugus County Industrial Development Agency.

Under the agreement with the IDA, MJ Painting pledged to retain its 47 employees and create five new employee positions.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/mj-painting-plans-to-start-franklin-street-brownfield-cleanup-next-month/article_a2e1620f-671d-5e37-a685-0dec9628288e.html

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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
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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