2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 22:51:58 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Finding a site in Dunkirk, New York
 
Cold storage to locate on city brownfield

by NICOLE GUGINO
Dunkirk Observer (NY)
July 16, 2017

It looks like the lawsuit that prevented a developer from locating in one neighborhood in the city of Dunkirk has not prevented it from setting sights on another. 

Neighbors rallied against Great Lake Cold Storage building a freezer facility for Fieldbrook Foods on the empty lot between Central Avenue, Fairview Avenue and Main Street Extension, culminating in an Article 78 lawsuit. 

Many residents at the time suggested an ideal location for the development would be the former Atwater warehouse on Roberts Road. Even Mayor Willie Rosas said if the brownfield had been remediated prior to the developer’s interest it would have been everyone’s first choice.

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.observertoday.com/news/page-one/2017/07/cold-storage-to-locate-on-city-brownfield/

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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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