[CPEO-BIF] White Plains Courtyard, Bronx, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

White Plains Courtyard gets top cleanup rating

BY BILL EGBERT
New York Daily News
May 27, 2008

How do you turn something useless into something priceless?

Clean up a contaminated "brownfield" site, and build badly needed 
affordable housing.

That's what happened at White Plains Courtyard, a $27 million apartment 
complex development by The Arker Companies, which has erected 100 units 
of affordable housing on a Bronx brownfield site.

State environmental officials have certified White Plains Courtyard with 
the top "Track 1" cleanup ranking, meaning it has met the most stringent 
environmental standards set by the state's Brownfield Cleanup Program, 
and qualifying it for "unrestricted use."

The formerly contaminated site at 2060 White Plains Road in Morris Park 
had been occupied by a gas station.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2008/05/27/2008-05-27_white_plains_courtyard_gets_top_cleanup_.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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