Representative Matters
For over sixty years, Sive, Paget & Riesel has been a recognized leader in environmental, land use, and municipal law and litigation. The firm has unparalleled experience assisting clients with environmental reviews, brownfield cleanups and redevelopment, environmental permitting, environmental aspects of real estate management, and due diligence reviews and risk assessments for corporate and real estate transactions. In recent years, the firm has built new practices in project finance, offshore wind and other renewables, climate change, and resiliency that draw on the firm’s historical strengths and experiences.
Phelps Dodge Brownfield Project
SPR represents the purchaser of this one-time copper smelter property and listed Class-2 Inactive Hazardous Waste Site who is redeveloping its approximately 39-acres for commercial and light industrial use. Working closely with the prior owner, the developer and the regulators, SPR helped secure ...
Manhattan Beer- Rooftop Solar
SPR represented Manhattan Beer Distributors in connection with a contract to purchase and install a 1.1 megawatt rooftop photovoltaic generation system atop the client’s Bronx warehouse. This is the largest privately-owned solar energy installation in New York City. The Firm negotiated the desi...
City Point
On behalf of project developers, SPR obtained dismissal of claims in New York County Supreme Court brought under the State Environmental Quality Review Act to challenge the mixed-use City Point project in Downtown Brooklyn by community group and labor unions on statute of limitations and standing...
Whole Foods Supermarket – Gowanus, Brooklyn
The firm helped complete federal and state tidal wetlands permitting and the State Environmental Quality Review Act natural resources and hazardous material review, and obtained United State Environmental Protection Agency sign-off and State Brownfield Cleanup Program Certificate of Completion fo...
The Governor Mario Cuomo Bridge
Sive, Paget & Riesel represented the New York State Thruway Authority, which together with the Metro North Railroad, a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, undertook the Tappan Zee Bridge/I287 Corridor environmental review. This process addressed the possible replacement o...