2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:20:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Brandywine Corridor, Binghamton, New York
 
Binghamton shapes vision for Brandywine Corridor

Residents asked for ideas on brownfield site

By Nancy Dooling
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
September 21, 2010


BINGHAMTON -- Planners envision neighborhoods intertwined with commercial and industrial districts in and around the Brandywine Corridor.

But at this point, plans to redevelop the 158-acre brownfield in the heart of Binghamton remain just a vision, planners said Tuesday night during a workshop at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School on Ogden Street. Residents, businesses owners and public officials attended.

...

The vision is constantly evolving. One issue that's popped up is that the revised flood maps proposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency would put the southern two-thirds of the site in a 100-year flood plain, Evangelisti said. That could make potential developers back away from investing in the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20100921/NEWS01/9210407/1112/Binghamton-shapes-vision-for-Brandywine-Corridor

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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
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