[CPEO-BIF] "From Bethlehem Steel brownfield to bicycle trail, " Lackawanna, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From Bethlehem Steel brownfield to bicycle trail

By Kevin Jolly  
Spectrum News (Buffalo, NY)
May 31, 2018 @5:33 PM

LACKWANNA, N.Y. -- A lakeside stretch of Lackawanna long known for industry is going to become the Shoreline Trail; 140 acres of land off of Route 5, dormant for 30 years, about to be reborn.

"Some of it we're keeping as a buffer zone for now with the green space, but the area behind that is going to be turned into a modern industrial park, and not the heavy industry of the past, but e-commerce, for logistics, for advanced manufacturing, the type of industry that we want to bring to this community," said County Executive Mark Poloncarz, D-Erie County.

The parcel of land at the historic Bethlehem Steel site was purchased by Erie County last year. A fence that used to line the pathway was taken down and the old rails must be removed from the brownfield.

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For the entire article, see
http://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2018/05/31/transforming-the-old-bethlehem-steel-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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