[CPEO-BIF] Former O'Brien & Gere facility, Fayetteville, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developer downsizes apartment proposal for Fayetteville brownfield site

by Elizabeth Doran 
Syracuse Post-Standard (NY)
June 22, 2015 

A revised plan has been submitted to Fayetteville for a large apartment complex on the site of the former O'Brien & Gere manufacturing site off Route 5.

The complex, which would have a mix of residential styles including apartments and townhomes, is being developed by Steve Eckler, an O'Brien & Gere representative; and Morgan Management. Morgan Management developed Madison Row project in the village of Manlius.

The state Department of Environment Conservation is reviewing an application by the developer who wants site included in the state's Brownfield Cleanup Program. That would make the project eligible for tax credits. The property is classified as a brownfield in need of environmental remediation, which dates back to contamination caused by Accurate Die Casting.

Neighbors have been concerned with the size of the project, slated for 547 E. Genesee St., and worried about traffic. The developer has scaled the project size down somewhat, according to Fayetteville village officials.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/developer_revises_apartment_proposal_for_former_fayetteville_industrial_site.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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