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Swords into Ploughshares, Guns into Condos

The blighted 128-year-old Ithaca Gun factory finally has the green light for a $3 million makeover into a park and luxury condos, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. The public-private project took a decade of negotiations to settle financial and environmental concerns. Perched on the edge of Ithaca Falls, the crumbling site is contaminated with […]

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The blighted 128-year-old Ithaca Gun factory finally has the green light for a $3 million makeover into a park and luxury condos, according to the Cornell Daily Sun. The public-private project took a decade of negotiations to settle financial and environmental concerns.

Perched on the edge of Ithaca Falls, the crumbling site is contaminated with unknown levels of arsenic, asbestos, lead, mercury, and uranium. The hazardous waste is the toxic residue of Ithaca Gun Company’s manufacture of guns and munitions from 1880 until 1986, when it declared bankruptcy.

Proper remediation of the site may stall the city’s plan to develop Inlet Island into parkland, says the Ithaca Journal.

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