[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, CONTRACTORS: Grumman Navy site, Bethpage, NY

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Nassau open to ideas for Bethpage Grumman site

BY WILLIAM MURPHY
Long Island Newsday (NY)
June 9, 2008

Nassau County formally asked for proposals Monday for the redevelopment 
of 105 acres of old Grumman property in Bethpage, and said it was open 
to all ideas, not just the technology park being pushed by County 
Executive Thomas Suozzi.

Suozzi said at a Mineola news conference that he wanted to develop "a 
high-tech campus that will serve to help brand the property, and Nassau 
County, as a center for homeland security and defense, alternative 
energy, medical, software, biotech, and nano technology ..."

...

The site is one of the largest swaths of available property in the 
county, but it was badly contaminated during decades of industrial use, 
and the county has yet to take title from the U.S. Navy to 9 acres that 
have not been completely decontaminated.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-linass0610,0,757722.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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