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Allegany County dairy farm fighting to keep its land The Allegany County Industrial Development Agency wants to take the land and compensate the owner to make way for a $500 million cheese manufacturing plant. Author: Rob Hackford (WGRZ) Updated: 11:50 PM EDT May 7, 2021 BELMONT, N.Y. A dairy farm in Allegany County is fighting to keep its land that could be taken and used to build a massive cheese plant just off I-86 in Angelica. The county industrial development agency or ACIDA wants to use eminent domain to get the project off the ground in order to build a 480,000-square-foot facility for the Ohio-based Great Lakes Cheese Company. ....
NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionDataObituariesE-EditionLegals Paving paradise to put up a cheese factory : Belmont protesters denounce eminent domain Close to 100 gathered outside the Allegany County Courthouse Thursday to protest the use of eminent domain in locating a Great Lakes Cheese factory The Evening Tribune BELMONT Roy Bielewicz was channeling Joni Mitchell in front of the Allegany County Courthouse Thursday morning, as close to 100 gathered to protest the use of eminent domain to facilitate the construction of a new $505 million cheese manufacturing facility. “Our legislators are paving paradise to put up a cheese factory,” said Bielewicz, paraphrasing the lyrics to “Big Yellow Taxi,” Mitchell s 1970 ode to the environment. ....