Local Brownfield Success Stories

The Riverview Innovation & Technology Campus and Honeywell teams have significant remediation, restoration, and redevelopment experience in Western New York. Together, the parties have successfully remediated and restored two nearby former industrial properties:

• In South Buffalo, they collaborated to clean up and redevelop the former Buffalo Color site, a large and complex remediation. Following a $25 million cleanup, the site is now home to the Heritage Discovery Center, an interactive educational complex that brings together the Steel Plant Museum and the Western New York Historical Society, as well as a proposed solar park. The 100-year-old former Schoellkopf Power House has undergone transformation into a popular local event space for conferences and weddings.
• In Niagara Falls, Jon Williams and Honeywell partnered on another successful brownfield cleanup and redevelopment project in the city’s Highland Avenue section. The former industrial site had been vacant for nearly 40 years before Williams and Honeywell teamed up to bring it back to life. Following a $25 million cleanup to bring the site to “shovel-ready” condition, Williams developed a new $11.7 million manufacturing facility for Tulip Molded Plastics, allowing the company to preserve more than 80 local jobs and create a path for future growth in Western New York. A separate portion of the property is being developed as a new park for the City of Niagara Falls.