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Awards Winners 2011
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Brownfield Renewal Awards! Thank you to everyone who submitted applications to our Brownfield Renewal Awards program and to all the judges who put so much time and effort into making our Renewal Awards Program such a success.
Please click on the tabs above for information about the 2011 judges' panel and nominees.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
The Town of Madison was selected to receive a brownfields assessment grant and a revolving loan fund grant. The Town is a community of 6,975 in Dane County, Wisconsin. A portion of a 70-acre site, formerly occupied by two landfills, has already been redeveloped as a technology campus.
The Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market (PWPM), located at 6700 Essington Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest fully-refrigerated wholesale produce market in the world.
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SOCIAL IMPACT
First, the benefits to the municipality were immense. The project utilized 20 acres of downtown, waterfront, former industrial land that posed numerous high level risks to the community and transformed that land into a state-of-the-art middle school campus providing a vastly improved educational environment to the City for generations of students to come.
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
The Bayaud Street site had a long history of economic production dating back over a hundred years to the time that Denver's economy was dominated by mining and mineral processing. But for the owner, General Chemical, the facilities were old, expensive to maintain, and no longer optimally located.
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Renewal Magazine
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With the Washington budget showing no signs of a quick-and-easy resolution, federal brownfields programs are unlikely to get much of …
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Brownfields and crop development—for the express intent of producing foods—are concepts that have always been strange bedfellows. Mutually exclusive. An…
At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three…
PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Industry Profiles
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Duane Wilson Baton Rouge, La.
Brownfields Project Manager/Staff Scientist, Environmental Technology
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Heather Rock British Columbia
Senior Program Analyst, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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by Staff Report
In Michigan, some are predicting a better business climate for redevelopment and regulatory closure of contaminated properties thanks to a bill Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was scheduled to sign last week. The new regulations should have a positive impact on commercial real estate development and brownfields redevelopment resulting in the creation of jobs. |
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Susan Boyle
Mt. Laurel
Senior Environmental Practice Leader, GEI Consultants
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