2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:14:28 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Quackenbush Square, Albany, New York
 
Big dig coming soon to clean up Albany's Quackenbush Square
Soil removal next step in 3-building Quackenbush plan

By Lauren Stanforth 
Albany Times-Union (NY)
March 26, 2017
 
Albany - A long-awaited environmental cleanup next to one of the city's most historic areas — Quackenbush Square — will begin soon with the excavation of more than 30,000 cubic yards of soil.

The remediation is related to a Brownfield Cleanup Program application submitted by the land's new developer, Pioneer Companies of Syracuse, that has proposed a mixed-use development around 705 Broadway that would connect downtown Albany with other redevelopment projects happening in the city's warehouse district.

In January, Pioneer officials presented a plan to city planners that showed three buildings, each one rising as high as nine stories, that would house retail, housing and a hotel at the corner of Broadway and Spencer Street.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Big-dig-coming-soon-to-clean-up-Albany-s-11029306.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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