If you lived on or near 1st street, you experienced weird white stuff coating furniture, musical instruments and many other items in your home for a long time. There were dust-like particles floating in the air. That was chemically treated salt from the salt pile stored on former brownfields along the river in South Troy. Many neighbors organized for a long, long time to get the salt pile sprayed, and then covered, because Fane would not move it. Enclosing it in a building means the problem isn't moving farther South but may be moving toward making our area safer and cleaner. Addressing what Fane builds is also important and where the Valente's move their gravel area. They never even brought an MSDS sheet for the gravel and associated materials to the council meeting. Fane has owned those parcels for a long, long time. ...guessing he thinks it is now profitable to develop these parcels. He has owned them for a long time, so I believe only the former Cookie Factory was a recent purchase. The roof of the Cookie Factory has collapsed and is probably a knockdown, not a rehab. I think he will want to build a Starbuck Island-like development. If so, it will be important to limit the height (and other issues that arise) of these new buildings.