College Park
Brownfield Cleanup Program Site #C447037
The new Golub headquarters will house
more than 700 employees
Highlights
The new headquarters for a large area supermarket chain was built to achieve Gold level status under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEEDs) certification system, and brings a vibrant new use to a long abandoned urban site.
Site Description
This 8.36-acre site was owned and operated by the American Locomotive Company previous to the 1960's. The property was later developed for retail businesses, including a dry cleaning operation. The property was abandoned in 2004 and the building and parking lot gradually fell into disrepair.
Investigation activities included a ground penetrating radar survey, a soil gas survey, soil borings and groundwater samples. Investigations identified soil contamination from metals, petroleum and dry cleaner solvents, as well as petroleum, vinyl chloride, tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene in the groundwater.
Cleanup
Staff perform remedial activities
at the site
The former retail plaza was razed in February 2006. Remedial activities included the removal and disposal of roughly 10,000 tons of contaminated soil, the collection, treatment, discharge of 400,000 gallons on contaminated groundwater, underground storage tank and transformer removal, and community air monitoring. A soil vapor mitigation system was installed in the new office building, and institutional controls will be periodically certified to ensure protective measures remain in-place.
Reuse
The new six-story building on-site is the new headquarters for the Golub Corporation, Schenectady County's largest private-sector employer. Local businesses should benefit from the approximately 700 employees working in the new building, as well as vendors and suppliers who continuously visit the headquarters. Energy efficient features of the new structure include sensors that automatically turn off lights and computers when not in use, and three micro-turbines on the roof that reduce demand on the utility grid by 25 percent.
