[CPEO-BIF] Olean, New York Brownfields Opportunity Area

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contract extension OK's with state for brownfield redevelopment

By Christopher Michel
Olean Times Herald (NY)
May 14, 2014

OLEAN – It's business as usual for redevelopment efforts aimed at  
large section of north Olean.

City aldermen unanimously approved a one-year contract extension with  
the state for work to bring new economic life to the city’s  
brownfields During Tuesday's Common Council meeting. The brownfields  
are a 500-acre section of north Olean where industrial contamination  
dating back to the 1800s has impeded redevelopment

The adjusted agreement expires Oct. 6, 2015.

With an additional year, officials from both the city and Bergmann  
Associates, a Rochester-based engineering firm the city hired in  
August 2012, have more time to complete studies of the land and  
develop a master plan to guide redevelopment on the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/article_84ae0982- 
db9e-11e3-92fa-0019bb2963f4.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
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