Tag Archives: Brownfields
Courts: City must monitor schools for environmental hazards
Posted on 02. Aug, 2011 by Paul DeBenedetto.
Parents and community leaders have won a victory in a long-running debate over environmental hazards in the Mott Haven school campus at Concourse Village near E. 153 Street. The court ordered the School Construction Authority to conduct a new environmental review of plans to monitor the four new schools in the Mott Haven school campus [...]
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Housing rises on reclaimed land in Melrose
Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by Alex Green IV.
Contaminated vacant lots are cleaned up An eight-story apartment building rising on the Northeast corner of East 158th Street and Third Avenue will complete the transformation of the intersection. Dubbed La Terraza, the building will join two more apartment buildings developed by the Melrose-based non-profit Nos Quedamos in the last decade. Offering 107 apartments for [...]
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Mott Haven job programs offer hope
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
Two programs to help residents find jobs received hopeful news in January. The Disconnected Youth Training Program and the Entrepreneurial Development Program, both run by Mott Haven based non-profit SoBRO, each received funding to help economically strapped local residents improve their prospects for earning a living wage.
