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BUFFALO LAKESIDE COMMIERCE  PARK
                                                                                                EPA 560-F-08-317
                                                                                                  November 2008
                                                    Buffalo Urban Development Corporation,
                                                                         Buffalo, New York
                                                                              Cleanup Grant
                 New Life Breathed into Former Industrial Property
     ADDRESS:
     PROPERTY SIZE:
     FORMER USE:
     CURRENT USE:
I8I8 Fuhrmann Blvd., Buffalo, NY 14024
.025 acres addressed by Cleanup Grant; 275 acres total
Pig iron manufacturing, salvage, rail yard
Light manufacturing, distribution center, plans for a park
     EPA GRANT RECIPIENT:
     Downtown Development, Inc., now known
     as Buffalo Urban Development Corporation,
     received a $200,000 Brownfields Petroleum
     Cleanup grant in 2003.
                      PROJECT PARTNERS:
                      City of Buffalo, US Army
                      Corps of Engineers, State
                      of New York, Erie County,
                      private industry
For additional data and geographic information for this
and other Brownfields Grants, please visit EPA's:
Envirofacts - www.epa.gov/enviro/html/bms/bms_querv.html
Enviromapper - www.epa.gov/enviro/bf
    PROJECT BACKGROUND:
    Over the last few decades, many of the industrial facilities along Buffalo's waterways were closed, abandoned, or
    underutilized due to contamination concerns. The 275-acre, former Union Ship Canal/Hanna Furnace property was among
    those sites. The property housed a pig iron manufacturing facility from around 1900 to 1982. Engine repairs conducted
    on a parcel used as a rail yard contaminated a 0.25-acre area with petroleum. After pig iron manufacturing ceased, the
    property was sold to a salvage firm that used the property briefly before going bankrupt. In approximately 1990, the
    City of Buffalo obtained the site through tax foreclosure and the property remained vacant for ten years. Development
    Downtown, Inc., a not-for-profit development agency, now known as Buffalo Urban Development Corporation,
    purchased the property  in a nominal transaction to develop the Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park. In 2003, EPA awarded
    Development Downtown, Inc. a $200,000 Brownfields Cleanup grant to address the site's petroleum contamination,
    freeing approximately I I acres for redevelopment.
    KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
    •   By April 2004, 25 acres of the property had been sold to CertainTeed
       Corporation, who constructed a 270,000 square foot building on the
       property in 2005.
    •   By August 2004, the contaminated area had been cleaned.
       Infrastructure improvements were then made, including roads,
       sidewalks, landscaping, and storm sewers.
    •   An estimated $20 million in public funding and $40 million in private
       funding has been used for cleanup and redevelopment of this property.

    OUTCOME:
                                                          Petroleum cleanup in progress.
   On November 16, 2004, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held to commemorate the opening of the road leading to the
   CertainTeed site and the completion of additional infrastructure. CertainTeed moved into its first completed building in
   January 2005. Since the cleanup, twelve acres were sold to the Cobey facility, a light manufacturer with a new 90,000
   square foot building and the capability to expand. Additionally, 52 acres were sold to Sonwil Distribution; they have
   constructed a distribution facility, and plan to build a second on the property. The Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park
   redevelopment plans also include a park along the canal. Park construction will begin in April 2009 using $7.4 million in
   leveraged funding to create open greenspace and trails.
   FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the EPA Brownfields Web site at http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/ or call EPA Region 2 at (212) 637-5000

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