Suffolk seeks OK on new brownfields land bank
Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Tom Cilmi, Suffolk County Legislator District 10, poses in front of an abandoned piece of property that used to a junkyard over thirty years ago on Grant Avenue in Islip. (Jan. 18, 2013)
After falling short last year, Suffolk lawmakers are again seeking state permission to create a land bank that could clean and return 124 tax-delinquent, possibly polluted properties to the tax rolls.
If the nonprofit land bank is approved, Suffolk officials say they will have a better chance of selling the brownfields parcels -- including gas stations, auto repair shops, restaurants, dumps...
