[CPEO-BIF] Gannett printing facility, Johnson City, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Gannett printing facility revitalizes industrial site

By Jeff Platsky
Ithaca Journal (NY)
July 29, 2006


JOHNSON CITY - Ithaca, Binghamton and Elmira community and business 
leaders gathered Thursday evening to celebrate the reclamation and 
redevelopment of an industrial site that was once thought to be 
hopelessly tainted.

A $50 million printing press built by Gannett Co. has resurrected the 
site that formerly hosted an abandoned and dilapidated Endicott Johnson 
Ranger Paracord plant. It's a project that's being touted as a prime 
example of how a successful private and public partnership can recover 
previously used industrial sites, referred to as brownfields, that have 
long been avoided by developers.

"We took an old brownfield site and did what you're supposed to do," 
said state Sen. Thomas W. Libous, R-Binghamton. "Everyone came together."

Now that the Central New York Production Facility in Johnson City is in 
full operation printing three Gannett newspapers, about 250 people 
gathered outside the five-story printing press to toast the accomplishment.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060729/NEWS01/607290328/1002/NEWS01

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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>
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