[CPEO-BIF] Downtown Cazenovia, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[In this case, a developer might apply for a brownfields grant AFTER 
remediation has been completed by the previous owner, the Town. - LS]

Cazenovia developer could apply for state grant funding for $10 million 
complex

By Alaina Potrikus
Syracuse Post-Standard (NY)
March 2, 2010

The developers of a $10 million medical and senior housing facility in 
downtown Cazenovia may need to apply for state grant funding to help 
make the project financially feasible.

Village leaders gave the proposed 73,000-square-foot complex on 
Riverside Drive conceptual approval last month after developers revised 
their plans to include more parking spaces and a look that mimics the 
community's historic business district.

...

Green said the project might have been eligible for brownfield tax 
credits. Town officials spent years rehabilitating the property along 
Chittenango Creek is adjacent to the Cazenovia Public Library which was 
once home to the town's highway garage after discovering soils polluted 
by petroleum. The New York State Department of Environmental 
Conservation helped coordinate the remediation, which was complete 
before the property was sold

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/cazenovia_developer_could_appl.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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