Colby Hamilton, Writer, WNYC News
Colby Hamilton is a general assignment reporter. He originally joined WNYC as a political blogger. He's a proud graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
W'Burg Brownfield Transformed Into Auto Racing Business
Monday, August 20, 2012 - 04:42 PM
The city's brownfield cleanup efforts were on display in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Monday as Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that a new auto racing consulting business would call home what had once been a polluted lot.
The new home of Ayton Performance was made possible through a collaborative state-city effort to incentive development of polluted sites.
Under the city plan, developers receive cash incentives to help defer cleanup costs. Additionally, an agreement between the city and state protect new developers from liability associated with the cleanup.
"For years the threat of future legal liability has often discouraged developers from cleaning up brownfields, even though they had no role in polluting those areas in the first place," Bloomberg said.
Since the city initiated the brownfield cleanup program in 2011 as part of PlaNYC 2020, 53 light-to-moderately polluted sites have enrolled.
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Racing engines designed in Brooklyn! It'll bring jobs and $$$. Vroom, vroom. Here's an example of the good work that smart city government can do, courtesy of The Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation.
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