by Nicholas Buonanno, Troy Record (NY)

Village officials said they are happy the Department of Environmental Conservation has officially started the process of performing brownfield cleanup work on Osgood Avenue.

Sean Ward, who is the executive assistant to Green Island Mayor Ellen McNulty-Ryan, said this proposal is for the south end of Center Island, closer to the Green Island Bridge. Peter Luizzi & Bros. Contracting of Albany is proposing the nearly $60 million Starbuck Island Apartments development project, a proposed 270 housing unit development near the Hudson River. The location on Osgood Avenue was once home to a century-old oil terminal site.

“Right now they are still in the planning process,” said Ward. “What they’re doing there is ... a brownfield cleanup under the direction of DEC. Simultaneously, they’re going through the planning process right now and it was presented to the Green Island Planning Board this past Monday and they tabled it; they allowed the introduction of it, but they tabled it until next month because the village board set a public hearing for Nov. 20 at 6:30 p.m.”

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