We have wind mills...
A brief history of the Lackawanna Steel Company in Buffalo - when they decided in the late 1890's to move from Scranton to Western New York to take advantage of reduced shipping costs along Lake Erie, they employed Ontario Power Company president John Albright (of Albright-Knox Art Gallery fame) to buy the land without raising suspicion and fueling land speculation. He bought up all the land for a mere $1.1M in 1899, under the pretense of using the land for the upcoming Pan Am Exposition of 1901. (He would often take John Milburn, President of the Pan Am Expo, along on his purchase visits to add credence to the ruse - one anecdote, perpetuated in Lauren Belfer's City of Light, is that the land would be used to grow flowers for the exposition!)
As you know (and can see in this
), the site is massive (at over 1300 acres, it is almost twice the size of Cornell University's Ithaca campus). The problem with that site is the exorbitant cleanup costs of all the toxic wastes, as well as what to do with the tremendous amount of infrastructure (railroad tracks, power grid rights of way, towers, aerial transmission cables, etc.) that traverse the property.
Myself, I say it's a great site for a new football stadium - right on the lake, easy access off Route 5, Milestrip Road, and the NYS Thruway, and who cares about brownfields and removing toxic waste, when you're only gonna pave it all over for parking lots and use it 8-11 times a year?