Government Plaza, Binghamton

The complex is located in Downtown Binghamton on the block bounded by State, Hawley, Isbell and Susquehanna streets.

It was constructed as part of a massive urban renewal plan in Binghamton through the late 1960s and early 1970s.

An elevated plaza that originally led to the second-story lobby of the State Office Building was torn down in the mid-1990s due to deterioration and increasing maintenance costs.

While initially expected to only take days to reopen, the cleanup effort revealed the difficulty of removing PCB residue.

[3] Multiple environmental samples taken throughout the cleanup had illustrated that despite their best efforts, workers had been unable to remove the residue, leading to several complete decontamination procedures within the building.