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.
Sendero Verde Project
The Sendero Verde project is nearing completion of a two-phase full-block development remediated under the NYS Brownfield Cleanup Program, that will create approximately 700 affordable housing units for very low to moderate income households and the formerly homeless. The combined phases of Sende...
Queens West Development Corporation
The firm represents the Queens West Development Corporation (QWDC), a subsidiary of Empire State Development and a cooperative undertaking of the State of New York and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. QWDC has overseen the remediation and redevelopment of former industrial waterfron...
Greenpoint Landing
SPR represents the developer of this 27-acre Brooklyn site fronting on the junction of the East River and Newtown Creek for mixed-use. A portion of the project has already been developed with affordable housing; when complete, the project will include extensive affordable housing, a school, retai...
Cape Cod Offshore Wind Farm
SPR performed due diligence on behalf of a potential investor in the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind farm, located off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The work involved review of the project EIS and analysis of permitting requirements under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Clean Water Act, Clean ...
Willets Point Development Project
SPR was retained by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) to serve as environmental counsel for the preparation of a Generic Environmental Impact Statement for the City of New York's proposed redevelopment of a 61 acre parcel in Willets Point Queens. The Willets Point project i...