[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Lockport Air Force Station, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agency to fund razing of eyesores

 

By Thomas J. Prohaska

Buffalo News (NY)

May 23, 2011

 

LOCKPORT - Vacant buildings in Lockport and Cambria could be crashing to the ground soon, thanks to funding from the Niagara County Brownfield Development Corp.

 

The county agency, using its supply of funding from the federal government, has awarded $400,000 to Cambria and $200,000 to Lockport for cleanup and demolitions of some long-running eyesores.

 

In Lockport, 71 Gooding St., the former Kohl Motorcycle building, owned by the city because of unpaid taxes, is targeted for razing.

 

In Cambria, half a dozen old buildings on what used to be the Lockport Air Force Station, a radar control facility for the long-defunct Nike Missile base, may be bulldozed.

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For the entire article, see

http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/lockport/article430818.ece

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Lenny Siegel

Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight

a project of the Pacific Studies Center

278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041

Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545

Fax: 650/961-8918

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