2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 10 Apr 2007 06:15:20 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Ambridge, Pennsylvania
 
Ambridge brownfield progress slow but steady

Larissa Theodore
Beaver County Times (PA)
April 8, 2007


AMBRIDGE - Bill Sutton understands the frustrations from Ambridge residents and business owners. The people are eager. They approach Sutton wondering when the span of rusted chunky metal in the heart of the borough will be torn down.

If Sutton had the ability, the managing director of the Moltoni Corp., the project's developer, would rush in and tear down the building with his bare hands. But change seldom happens overnight, especially when you're in the second phase of a $15 million project to reclaim land that was used in the last 60 years primarily for industrial purposes and has considerable environmental hazards.

But revitalizing Ambridge's brownfields, also known as the Northern Ambridge Redevelopment Project, isn't an undertaking that officials are taking on lightly. In a whirlwind of nearly four years, the Moltoni Corp., owned by Australian businessman and developer Rob Moltoni, has purchased a span of about 60 acres that sits between Duss Avenue and Merchant Street from 11th to 19th streets. At the northern end of the site, near Foodland, a portion of the former H.H. Robertson Co. property - on land between 15th and 19th streets - has been transformed into the New Economy Business Park. Before Moltoni began looking at the former mill sites for his redevelopment in 2003, the rusted property hadn't been touched in nearly 30 years, but renovation work that began last year on an existing building is complete and two tenants now occupy the building, Centria, a metal fabrication company, and Spiniello, a pipeline company.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18184512&BRD=2305&PAG=461&dept_id=478569&rfi=6
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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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