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October 2009
Ground Breakers
By Elizabeth Brewster



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Eric Williams President and Chief Executive Officer, Frontier Renewal, Denver As the head of Frontier Renewal, a specialty real estate company focused on the acquisition, remediation and repositioning of brownfields, Eric Williams is a nationally recognized expert in brownfields. His 22-year career in the field includes all aspects of redevelopment: identifying and qualifying potential brownfield projects, determining best and highest use, managing environmental risk and planning land use, along with entitlements, public incentive programs, public and private financing and overall deal structuring.

With a degree in geology, Williams made a natural transition from environmental cleanup work in the late 1980s to "the real estate side of the equation," he says. ...


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