[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Developer sues Rochester [NY] over brownfield cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developer sues Rochester over brownfield cleanup

By WILL ASTOR 

Rochester Beacon (NY)

September 6, 2019

The city of Rochester needs to acknowledge its role in contaminating a Goodman Street brownfield and should help pay for the site’s environmental cleanup costs, a developer completing construction of a 100-unit apartment project on the property claims.  

Mark IV Enterprises affiliate Highland Grove LLC expects the $17.5 million project now under construction at 625 S. Goodman St. to be ready for occupancy next year. 

The 2.2-acre Goodman Street tract sits by I-490. Mark IV bought the property from New York in 2016. The parcel at one time housed the Sherwood Shoe Factory. After the abandoned shoe factory burned in a two-alarm 1971 blaze, the parcel stood vacant for nearly half a century. 

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For the entire article, see
https://rochesterbeacon.com/2019/09/06/developer-sues-rochester-over-brownfield-cleanup/

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Lenny Siegel

Executive Director

Center for Public Environmental Oversight

A project of the Pacific Studies Center

LSiegel@cpeo.org

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