2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:30:19 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Former Concord Resort Hotel, Kiamesha Lake, New York
 
Concord property to get cleaned
Brownfields targeted at hotel site

By Victor Whitman
Middletown Times Herald-Record (NY)
June 3, 2011

KIAMESHA LAKE - Concord owner Louis Cappelli's company is about to resume cleanup of the contaminated brownfield areas at the former Concord Resort Hotel - a first sign of life at the abandoned construction site in nearly three years.

The Department of Environmental Conservation announced last month that the company, Concord Kiamesha LLC, was about to clean five areas, a project that became derailed in winter 2008. The state accepted 14.5 acres of the hotel site into the Brownfield Cleanup Program in 2005 and 20.5 acres in 2009.

Cappelli and Mohegan Sun recently announced a partnership to revive Cappelli's vision of a $600 million racino and hotel resort on the footprint of what, for decades, had been the Catskills' largest hotel. The project famously collapsed after Cappelli couldn't get financing at the recession's bottom.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110603/NEWS/ 106030352

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Lenny Siegel
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