[CPEO-BIF] Buffalo Forge site , Buffalo, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield remediation financing slowing proposed development on Buffalo Forge site 

By MIKE DESPOND
WBFO Public Radio News (Buffalo, NY)
May 30, 2017

Building a development can seem relatively simple: find a piece of land, find an architect to provide a design, then build. In reality, it is far more complicated and why a major development on Broadway on the edge of downtown Buffalo will not be underway until early next year.

For years, the former site of Buffalo Forge has sat a heavily contaminated large field of green grass, watched by thousands of people who drove by or lived in the neighborhood. Only a few blocks from downtown and within walking distance of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, the local economic turnaround created the vision for The Forge on Broadway.

Rhonda Ricks is one of the developers of the proposed project. She said the development is going through a process - and not a quick one.

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For the entire article, see
http://news.wbfo.org/post/brownfield-remediation-financing-slowing-proposed-development-buffalo-forge-site

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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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