Falconer colors its expertise with brownfield renovation.(Business in the Southern Tier)(Falconer town in Chautauqua County, New York)

Chautauqua County's town of Falconer was the stage on which the private and public sector came together last year to make an unprecedented curtain call: They took a bow for pulling off a brownfield industrial redevelopment in New York state in which a new facility replaced the old.

The success story in Falconer is also serving as a standard by which to measure other brownfield redevelopments. It's having a motivating influence as well: "What it does is take something that's been long perceived as a significant liability or impediment to development and turns it into a positive," said David Flynn, a partner in the law firm of Phillips Lytle Hitchcock Blaine & Huber LLP, which served as counsel for the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency.

"Through a change in attitude and implementation of existing laws, we're now on the. cusp of some very significant redevelopment …