[CPEO-BIF] Endicott Forging building, Endicott, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

2 industrial eyesores' days may be numbered
Endicott Forging, Ozalid buildings may be razed


By Eric Reinagel
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
September 10, 2007

UNION -- At least two industrial eyesores in Endicott and Johnson City 
are being targeted for demolition if state grants are secured.

Johnson City would like to use a Restore NY grant to demolish the former 
Ozalid Corp. building at 46 Corliss Ave.

Endicott's mayor would like to use the program to demolish the former 
Endicott Forging facility on North Street.

Union also is applying for the grant in conjunction with Johnson City, 
but hasn't decided which building or buildings would be demolished.

Both the Endicott and Johnson City factories have become massive 
eyesores, as well as magnets for vandals, drug dealers and homeless 
people, officials said. Furthermore, both buildings could be seized by 
Broome County for back taxes, but the county doesn't want the 
responsibility of any environmental cleanup that the properties may 
need, said Broome County's chief planner, Frank Evangelisti.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709100341

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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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