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Nick Pepe' assures WPCNR operation is on schedule.

Reported by Nick Pepe', Bianco & Pepe'

CityLine: December 30, 2000 - Scarsdale

Clean-up of environmental contamination of the Brockway Place property for construction of the new Department of Public Works garage has not been completed as of this date, according to WPCNR's information. The property is the lynchpin for the prestigious Stop N Shop/DPW project at the City's Eastern gateway. However the owner, Nick Pepe' of Bianco & Pepe' telephoned WPCNR last week, and assured us everything is on schedule.

The property was being cleared of refuse and fuel waste found by the New York State Department of Conservation to be fouling the Mamaroneck River running through the property.

Nick Pepe', principal of Biano & Pepe',the city's partner in the project along with Stop N Shop, the supermarket giant gave WPCNR this exclusive telephone progress report:

"The Stop N Shop/DPW project is pretty much on schedule. There's an awful lot going on behind the scenes simultaneously.

We're right at the signature point for all three documents, which are each individual, yet interrelated with one another. So it's not a clean, straightforward deal It doesn't mean its overly complicated. Whenever you get three parties trying to put all these pieces together, it doesn't always happen as fast as people had hoped.

Having said that, we are well on the way with structural plans for the DPW garage. We've taken pricing on the structures itself.We're in final stages of negotiations with the subcontractor for steel portion of the DPW. The plans for the Stop N Shop are proceeding. The plans for the parking structure are well under way.

I feel rather confident that we are very much on schedule. We're not waiting for one thing to happen before we proceed with the next. We're doing things simultaneously, doing things down parallel roads. I feel comfortable that the whole thing is proceeding nicely."

Paul Wood, Economic Development Officer and spokesman for the Mayor's office, said he expected ground-breaking for the DPW to take place in the spring as had been previously planned.

WPCNR has asked Joseph "Bud" Nicoletti, City Commissioner of Public Works, for an update on the progress of the clean-up and the project, has not given us his assessment of the project status at this time, due to his being out of the city offices last week.

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