This past March, Marianina agreed to sell the site for $1.6 million to White Plains Hospital, to build a garage. Then Marianina filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, declaring $1.6 million in assets and $14.2 million in liabilities.Ĭodella, the owner, died last year at age 67. The housing authority dropped BP from the lawsuit and named Marianina as the defendant. A toxic groundwater plume was migrating toward Winbrook Building 33, the housing authority claimed, and in less than seven years it could reach the building and threaten the health of 350 residents. The housing authority originally sued BP Products North America. Marianina leased the gas station to other operators for several years and then around 2017 the gas station closed. But despite at least two cleanups in the 1980s and 1990s, according to court records, substantial contamination was left behind. The site of the former BP gas station is 34 East Post Road, across the street from the emergency entrance of White Plains Hospital and adjacent to the Winbrook Apartments and the partially built Brookfield Commons.Īfter Marianina owner Frank Codella bought the property in 1986, contaminated soil and water were discovered. He said that means that the hospital would assume all existing liabilities and rights that Marianina holds and the housing authority would retain its rights in the ongoing federal lawsuit. Now the sale can proceed “on the condition that White Plains Hospital is prepared to step into the shoes of Marianina in all aspects of this matter,” U.S. In 2020, Marianina Oil Corp., the owner of the 0.26 acre property, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, automatically stopping the federal court action.

In 2017, the housing authority sued BP oil company in federal court to clean up the contamination before it jeopardized plans to replace Winbrook with the $350 million Brookfield Commons. The former BP station on East Post Road in White Plains. The proposed sale has been stalled by the White Plains Housing Authority over concerns that a toxic groundwater plume is migrating toward the nearby Winbrook Apartments. A federal judge has cleared the way for a deal by White Plains Hospital to buy a contaminated gas station property on East Post Road.

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