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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 13 Jul 2006 16:26:46 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Long Dock Beacon Waterfront, New York
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 26, 2006
Senator Charles E. Schumer

SCHUMER JOINS SCENIC HUDSON FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOUR ON LONG DOCK BEACON WATERFRONT - PUSHES FOR FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR PROJECT

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today joined Scenic Hudson and other Dutchess County community and business leaders to tour the Long Dock Beacon Waterfront. This former Brownfield is the site of a public-private partnership that plans to build a 160-room hotel and conference center, 17-acre public waterfront park, and two restaurants. When completed in Spring of 2008, Long Dock Beacon will employ 300 people.

"The Long Dock Beacon Waterfront project means new jobs, new energy, new dollars pumped into Dutchess County," Schumer said. "The waterfront will be a catalyst to revitalize the economy and promote development. This is a project that will conserve energy, renew water, and restore the habitat. That's why I will fight hard in Washington to make sure the Long Dock Beacon Waterfront gets the tools and resources it needs to become a reality."

The Long Dock Beacon project will transform a 25-acre former industrial site on the Hudson River waterfront into a stunning public park and hotel. This $60 million project sets a new precedent for an environmental organization to work with a private, for-profit developer. Long Dock Beacon represents a fresh, new approach to waterfront development: one not driven solely by profits, but also by a strong will to treat the environment right and make the River public.

The Scenic Hudson Land Trust (SHLT) owns the property and will develop a 17-acre public park and amenities associated with the project. SHLT has entered a development agreement with Foss Group Beacon, LLC, and is leasing eight acres for the commercial development. Key aspects of the project include a 17-acre waterfront park with trails, public fishing pier, boardwalk, and plazas, 140-room hotel, conference center, and spa, two restaurants, kayak outfitter and harbor for nonmotorized boats, and a boat building program for local youth.

In late April, Schumer wrote a letter to Arthur Garcia, Director of Community Development Financial Institutions Fund at U.S. Department of Treasury, in support of the New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) application by Coastal Enterprises, Inc (CEI). A portion of the tax credits in CEI's application were for the Long Dock Beacon Project. Awards are to be announced this summer.

Schumer plans to assist the SHLT and Foss Group Beacon, LLC as they seek permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of State for development of a 16+-acre park and 8+-acre hotel/conference. These permits involve work to:
* stabilize eroding shorelines and failing bulkheads;
* construct a 22,000 boardwalk and civic plaza overlooking the water for public recreation;
* resculpt the shoreline to create additional water area in the river;
* construct a floating dock for visiting boats; and
* rehabilitate degraded wetlands and create new wetlands.


The project creates more new wetlands and "new river" than it impacts; it enhances the wetlands and shoreline by removing invasive plant species and replacing them with native plants; and it uses innovative storm water management techniques to meet or exceed current requirements.

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For the original press release, see
http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/2006/PR176.Long%20Dock%20Development.052606.html

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Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org


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