Mid-Hudson News (NY)

State environmental officials Thursday announced the completion of a brownfield cleanup at a Kingston industrial site, located at a blighted area along the Rondout Creek waterfront. The work took just over a year and over 30,000 man-hours to finish.

Formerly a manufactured gas production facility, the property, located on Front Street behind the old Millen’s scrapyard, currently serves as a gas regulator facility for the utility. 

Christopher Capone, CFO of Central Hudson, which owns the site, said the project was very important, both to his company, and also the surrounding community.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2017/July/28/King_waterfront_remed-28Jul17.html

by Jonathan D. Epstein, Buffalo News (NY)

Rocco Termini hopes the directors of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency like beer. A lot.

Termini is seeking help from the ECIDA to support his conversion of an old industrial building on Chandler Street into the new home of Thin Man Brewery and a business incubator.

The developer, through his Signature Development Buffalo LLC, has applied for sales and mortgage recording tax breaks for the $4.695 million project, in which he would add 10,000 square feet to the 40,000-square-foot building at 166 Chandler St.

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The century-old building suffered a fire in 2001 and has been vacant more than 10 years, according to Termini's application. It's "in very bad condition" and is considered an "environmental hazard" because of the fire and prior uses of the building.

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For the entire article, see
http://buffalonews.com/2017/07/28/termini-wants-tax-breaks-thin-man-brewery-project/

by Judi Currie, Foster's Daily Democrat (NH)

The city has chosen Credere Associates of Westbrook, Maine, to lead the cleanup effort at Breton’s Cleaners.

In March the City Council authorized Belmore to sign an agreement with the state Department of Environmental Services to accept $178,000 from the state Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund.

Despite not receiving a $200,000 EPA Brownfields grant in the 2016 round of funding, the council opted to move forward with a plan to clean up the former site and demolish the building.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fosters.com/news/20170724/credere-to-lead-clean-up

by Cyrus Moulton, Worcester Telegram (MA)

The juxtaposition on Grand Street in Main South is stark: A renovated, historic factory building with new windows looking into 94 affordable apartments is surrounded by an abandoned, dilapidated conglomeration of industrial buildings and vacant lots.

“Hopefully it will stimulate other work in the area,” said Steve Teasdale, executive director of the Main South Community Development Corp., of the renovated factory.
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The factories of Central Massachusetts’ industrial age may have largely faded into the past or been repurposed for new uses. But in many cases, a legacy of that age remains: a degraded environment.
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For the entire article, see
http://www.telegram.com/news/20170729/making-it-in-central-mass-restoring-regions-environment-in-wake-of-industrial-age

by Derek Carson, Bennington Banner (VT)

Cleaning up the Putnam Block is expect to cost just shy $1 million, with the lion's share of the money going towards the removal of a chemical called "trichloroethylene."

The public was largely absent from Wednesday's hearing on the clean-up plan, but project engineers still took the time to go over the plan and answer what questions there were.

The Putnam Block Project is a $54 million renovation plan for the buildings on the southwest side of Bennington's Four Corners. Local investors, including Southwestern Vermont Health Care, Bennington College, Southern Vermont College, the Bank of Bennington, and individuals, plan to invest and take advantage of grants and tax incentives to revitalize the block, and with it hopefully the rest of downtown.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/under-1-million-to-clean-up-putnam,513488

by John Nicholson, Hazmat Magazine

The Niagara Region municipal government, which is made of 30 representatives from 12 area municipalities, recently announced it is changing its incentive program for the revitalization of brownfields. When the changes to the brownfields incentive program are enacted, developers will be eligible to recoup 100 percent of the costs or remediation for brownfield sites. Under the existing program, only development charges were waived.

The revised plan will be beneficial when the cost of soil and groundwater remediation at a brownfield site costs more than development charges.
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For the entire article, see
http://www.hazmatmag.com/hazmat/niagara-region-proposes-new-incentive-program-redevelop-brownfield-sites/1003275822/

by Nicole Gugino,Dunkirk Observer (NY)

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

Construction of condominiums, marina slated to begin in fall

by Mike Hibbard, Finger Lake Times (NY)

Several years after a plan to build condominiums and a marina at the former Penn Yan Boat Company site was first pitched, construction could begin later this summer.

Earlier this month, village officials signed closing papers selling the property to Chris Iversen, owner of Gorham-based Iversen Construction. Iversen entered into an agreement with Penn Yan and Yates County through a subsidiary, Keuka Outlet Development, LLC.

Iversen plans to build 42 condo units, a clubhouse and marina at the site, which was home to Penn Yan Boats for nearly 80 years. Iversen has done a number of other high-profile projects in the village, including the Birkett Landing apartment complex along the Keuka Lake Outlet on Water Street and the new Hampton Inn hotel on the lake.
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The village previously received funding from the state’s Environmental Cleanup Reserve for remedial work at the site, which was a brownfield area. The state Department of Environmental Conservation later issued a certificate of completion for the work.
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For the entire article, see
http://www.fltimes.com/news/penn-yan-marine-project-makes-headway/article_83dafef6-6639-11e7-871a-27e075c86223.html

by Charles Winokoor, Taunton Gazette (MA)

Kayaks and canoes should be slipping into the Taunton River by mid-September when the new Weir Village Riverfront Park on West Water Street opens to the public, according to Kevin Shea, Taunton’s economic and community development executive director.

The “passive recreation” public park, Shea said, will feature a 16-foot-wide boat ramp catering to kayaks and canoes with a separate aluminum gangway and a floating dock; a 1,000-foot-long paved walking path running parallel to the river; a sidewalk near the street; a small plaza in the middle with granite benches; and elevated lights running along the riverbank fence and in other areas.

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The city became burdened with what eventually was deemed a contaminated brownfield site on the banks of the Taunton River — after the silver-plating company closed shop in 1986 and left the place vacant.

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For the entire article, see
http://raynham.wickedlocal.com/news/20170707/from-brownfield-to-green-space-tauntons-f-b-rogers-will-re-open-as-riverfront-park-in-september

The disposition of the property comes three years after Lincoln Equities and Real Capital acquired it from Dow Chemical subsidiary Union Carbide.

by Barbra Murray, Commercial Property Executive

Lincoln Equities Group and partner Real Capital Solutions just pocketed $57 million on the sale of a 228-acre industrial site in Piscataway, N.J. The partners sold the fully entitled property to The Rockefeller Group, which plans to invest as much as $250 million to develop the site.

The disposition of the property, located off Interstate 287 at 171 River Rd., comes three years after Lincoln Equities and Real Capital acquired it from Dow Chemical subsidiary Union Carbide. The former brownfield site—which Union Carbide fully restored following the closing of a Bakelite plastics manufacturing plant in 1939—has been closed since the 1960s. While most industrial real estate developers were targeting the Interstate 95 corridor, Lincoln Equities saw an opportunity for the Interstate 287 corridor.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/rockefeller-buys-228-acre-nj-industrial-site/