2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:57:41 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Jiten Hotel planned, south Bronx, New York
 
Hotel group Jiten plans 80- to 90-room hotel in brownfield cleanup area in South Bronx



BY Daniel Tucker
New York Daily News
December 21, 2010

There's "No Vacancy" at this vacant lot: A new 80- to
90-room hotel is coming to the South Bronx.

"It's going to create jobs," said Sheetal Patel, a
project manager for Jiten, the hotel operator, which
hopes to break ground in early 2011. "It's going to
really help the neighborhood."

The hotel site is an abandoned lot just off the Major
Deegan Expressway at 135th St. and Third Ave. that
is littered with debris and more than 30 barrels
marked "non-hazardous waste."

The site is also a brownfield, contaminated and in
need of environmental cleanup. It's one of six
brownfields in Port Morris that an economic
development group has chosen as "catalyst sites" for
cleanup and redevelopment.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2010/12/21/2010-12-21_hotel_group_jiten_plans_80_to_90room_hotel_in_brownfield_cleanup_area_in_south_b.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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