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.
Indian Hill Park Conservancy
SPR successfully opposed a proposal to construct a new cellular tower in Indian Hill Park that would have required the construction of a half-mile access road through pristine forested parkland and the potential destruction of Native American ceremonial stone landscapes.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF), a critically acclaimed nonprofit theater organization, has proposed to build a new permanent theater overlooking the Hudson River in Garrison, New York. The project is designed to be the first purpose-built LEED Platinum certified theater in the Unit...
Lenox Hill Hospital
SPR is serving as environmental counsel for Northwell Health regarding the redevelopment of the Lenox Hill Hospital, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The redevelopment project will make Lenox Hill a state-of-the-art hospital featuring single-bedded patient rooms, advanced and adaptabl...
Prologis
SPR is environmental counsel to Prologis on pre-acquisition due diligence, transaction negotiation and redevelopment of industrial logistics properties in New York and New Jersey. The firm also counsels Prologis on environmental remediation and regulatory compliance, including waterfront permitti...
Goethals Bridge
SPR served as counsel to the consulting firm responsible for preparing the EIS for the initial proposal by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to construct a new bridge across the Arthur Kill, between Staten Island and New Jersey, paralleling the Goethals Bridge. Our work included the r...