Here's an article from the Ithaca Times which is a bit on the optimistic side regarding the expected hazardous material clean up which will be required for the huge Chain Works project (located between Ithaca College & downtown) on an old industrial site on South Hill. The entire project is guesstimated to take 10 years, but until the site is "clean" no true length of time can be given. I'm keeping my fingers crossed:
http://www.ithaca.com/news/how-dirty...af571183c.html