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Brownfield Stateside Report
 
 
Indy Races Towards Blight Removal - City officials in Indianapolis have announced the creation of a new Brownfield Redevelopment office that will implement new grants, and focus on development opportunities in blighted areas near shuttered industrial sites.
 
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Revitalization Developments in Daytona, Detroit - The city commission in Daytona Beach, Fla., has agreed to designate a strip of beachside as a Brownfields Redevelopment site, while Wayne County, Mich., bags grant for Detroit redevelopment work.  ...
 
Pittsburgh Redevelopment Authority Approves Funding District - The board of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh voted unanimously in May to adopt a new Tax Increment Finance District for the remaining undeveloped portions of Summerset at Frick Park, the 238-acre brownfield redevelopment in the city’s East End.
 
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No Kidding: Council Bluffs Bags $166 K for Mid-City Rehab Project -  The city of Council Bluffs, Ia., is expected to land $166,500 for Brownfields property assessment that would be used for cleanup and reuse of its mid-city corridor, EPA Region 7 announced in late April. ...
 
Washington state $300,000 Cleanup Grant -  The Port of Sunnyside will use a $300,000 state grant to finish cleaning up contamination at the old Carnation industrial milk processing plant to protect the environment and to bring new business and family-wage jobs to the community. ...
 
$12 M Michigan Residential Redevelopment -  On the heels of the city of Muskegon approving a 70-lot $12 million residential development on Muskegon Lake.  The site on the end of the Terrace Point property includes the Shoreline Inn and Conference Center that was once home to the historic Continental Motors plant, which has an environmental contamination issue. ...
 
K.C. Industrial Site Would Create 2K Jobs -  NorthPoint Development, a growing player in local industrial real estate and development, wants to attract new manufacturing opportunities to the 80-acre site of the old General Motors Fairfax plant that was demolished in 1987. ...
 
Fonstad Residence: Sustainable, Architecturally Flexible - The constant need to find alternative sources, methods and/or materials to reduce a building’s footprint is required at every phase of the building process, as the developer of the Fonstad Residence in Santa Cruz, Calif. discovered.   ...
 
Cleveland Clinic Feted with Energy Excellence Plaudit - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized Cleveland Clinic with a 2013 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership in protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency.
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Everything’s Big in Texas—Including Redevelopment Ambitions -
In 2012, the EPA awarded $69 million in grants to 245 cities and other groups that will assess, clean or redevelop properties. Of that, $1.3 million was awarded to cities in predominantly north Texas. Arlington, Irving and McKinney are among area those Texas cities receiving brownfields assessment grants in recent years.
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Lexington, Ky. Brewery a Toast of the Town! -
With the establishment of the West Sixth Brewing Co., the neighbors in Lexington are happy because the corner went from being blighted to becoming a vibrant, positive influence.

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Indiana Agencies Partner on Demolition, Cleanup Priorities - The Indiana Brownfields Program has partnered with the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) for more than a year to leverage one-time, Disaster Recovery 2 funding available from OCRA for demolition/clearance and other eligible activities to facilitate brownfield redevelopment. ...
 
In Conn., Good Day at Blackrock! -
The Town of Fairfield, located along Connecticut’s Gold Coast, is banking on the Fairfield Metro Center project, anchored by a new train station, to help revitalize a long underutilized industrial district. The state of Connecticut, the town and private developer Blackrock Realty worked together in a unique public-private partnership (P3) to create the innovative transit-oriented development (TOD) project.
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A Ticket to Ride in Washington State - The new park and ride built atop a landfill lot more than doubles the park and ride capacity in Thurston County, Wa. ...
 
Kent, Wash.: Aggressive Phase I, Phase II Push in the Works - The city of Kent has awarded a $385,000 contract to Stantec Consultant Services to conduct a community-wide assessment for contaminated sites; The owner-to-be of a planned $22 million apartment development in an historic factory complex in Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony neighborhood has applied for entry into New York state’s brownfield cleanup program; and The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority is set to cut the ribbon on one of Ohio's largest solar farms -- an installation of 4,212 energy-generating panels on six acres of a previously vacant brownfield next to the agency's headquarters in Cleveland's Kinsman neighborhood. ...
 
Florida Cleanup: The TIF Advantage For Local, State and Federal Funding -
With state and federal resources for brownfield assessment and cleanup dollars becoming generally less available, Tax Increment Financing (TIF) presents a viable funding alternative for Community Redevelopment Areas (CRAs) across Florida.
 
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Mass.Brownfields Tax Credit Serves Multiple Public-Purpose Objectives -
Several communities in Massachusetts have been able to take advantage of the Massachusetts Brownfields Tax Credit (BTC) to recover a significant portion of the cleanup costs, thereby overcoming a key hurdle and leading to successful redevelopment.
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Reuse, Redevelopment Opportunities Abound in Michigan, Oregon and Washington - As many officials in the city of Marquette continue to focus on planning for the city's future, one local body is working to erase the grittier parts of the past.  Meanwhile, in Portland, Ore., South Waterfront is an example of brownfield redevelopment on a large scale. Hundreds of acres of contaminated and underutilized land in Portland along the Willamette River are being cleaned up and converted into residential towers, medical buildings and educational facilities. ...
 
Environmental Remediation Order of the Day in N.C., Illinois and Washington -
A state environmental agency has signed off on a long-awaited plan to redevelop a toxic, abandoned industrial site next to the Cape Fear River. The city of Fayetteville acquired the former Texfi Industries property last year, more than a decade after the discovery of contaminated groundwater. The textile plant shuttered in 1999, and the company later folded.
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Growing Trees and Growing Action Strategies - New trees for an urban greening program in Providence, R.I., while strategic action plans are being developed in Norwich, Conn., and Tulsa, Okla., for the purpose of furthering new brownfield projects in these cities. It's all part of the Brownfield Stateside activity roundup for late October.

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EPA Steps Up with Regional Northeast Brownfield Investments -

Nine Maine organizations will receive $4.3 million in federal Environmental Protection Agency funding to help assess potentially toxic properties, clean up brownfields and redevelop formerly unusable lands. Meantime, the Department of Environmental Management is soliciting applications from across Rhode Island to initiate allocation of $400,000 in Targeted Brownfields Assessment funding.

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Buffalo Wings It; Portland 'Greens' It - From coast to coast—Buffalo to Portland—inroads are being made with land reuse and revitalization, including environmental remediation work that will possibly be converted into industrial, waterfront, commercial and residential redevelopment efforts if all plans go accordingly. ...
 
This Kentucky Redevelopment is Food for Thought! - Originally a gas station and then a liquor store, the building at the corner of Third Street and North Limestone in downtown Lexington, Ky., is now the home of Doodle’s Breakfast and Lunch, a popular eatery. Back in 1945, the Central Shell station was a state-of-the-art facility with an office, two service bays and an exterior of shiny porcelain panels.

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Down in Dixie, Atlanta BeltLine Epitomizes Redevelopment Vision at its Finest! - The Atlanta BeltLine is America’s most ambitious redevelopment—transforming 22 miles of rail encircling Atlanta’s core into transit, trails, parks and affordable housing, reconnecting neighborhoods and creating a world of future opportunity.


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It's Cleanup Time in Michigan, Ohio and Louisiana - Kalamazoo County and the Kalamazoo Brownfield Redevelopment Authority are partnering to clean up an abandoned industrial site on the city's north side. Under the agreement, Kalamazoo County will allocate up to $300,000 to fund the environmental work at the former Sun Chemical Co. and BRA staff will manage the assessment, cleanup and site preparation process. ...
 
DEP Report: Florida Flush with Brownfield Activity, Success Stories -
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has released its Florida Brownfields Redevelopment Program Annual Report for fiscal year 2011-12, which highlights job creation efforts and projects new capital investment of $388 million to date in 2012.
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Indiana, West Virginia: Show Us the Grants - For the second year in a row, the state of Indiana grant proposals fared the best among the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 states for the U.S. EPA 2012 competitive round of Brownfield Assessment, Cleanup, and Revolving Loan Fund (ARC) grants.

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A Recipe for Renewal -

Cities in Texas, Minnesota and Indiana get down to business in pinpointing, selecting redevelopment initiatives--acknowledging their brownfield sites and recognizing them as opportunities.

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Southeastern States Seeking Local Revival - Cities in Tennessee and Florida are in the process of assessing potential brownfield redevelopment initiatives in several blighted industrial and commercial areas of the respective communities. Public input and consensus-building were cornerstones of these redevelopment proceedings. ...
 
For EPA, It's Open Season for Brownfield Grants - Communities in California, Michigan, Oregon, Connecticut and Kentucky are among those that have received U.S. EPA grants for cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties. ...
 
NYC: Coal Tar Contamination Meets its Match - A property located on a bank of the East River and in a densely developed residential and commercial area, had its work cut out for it from an environmental remediation standpoint. The mission was to clean up the land and ultimately make one puzzle piece to a larger urban revitalization project that would be redeveloped as a public library and park ranger station.
 

 
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Michigan Vision--Regulatory Reinvention -
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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Brownfield Stateside Report
 
by Staff Report
City officials in Indianapolis have announced the creation of a new Brownfield Redevelopment office that will implement new grants, and focus on development opportunities in blighted areas near shuttered industrial sites.
 
by Staff Report
The city commission in Daytona Beach, Fla., has agreed to designate a strip of beachside as a Brownfields Redevelopment site, while Wayne County, Mich., bags grant for Detroit redevelopment work. 
by Pittsburgh Business Times
The board of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh voted unanimously in May to adopt a new Tax Increment Finance District for the remaining undeveloped portions of Summerset at Frick Park, the 238-acre brownfield redevelopment in the city’s East End.
 
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BROWNFIELD EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT
 
Breaking Down Brownfields Breaking Down Brownfields
With nearly 30 years of professional consulting experience, Miles Bolton leads Apex in tackling some of the toughest brownfield redevelopment and engineering projects in the nation. Safety, innovation, efficiency and customer satisfaction are the words that describe Bolton’s project focus, and what drives Apex to provide clients with the highest quality services in the most cost-effective manner.

NALGEP Lauds Laws for Public-Private Partnership Revitalization Plan NALGEP Lauds Laws for Public-Private Partnership Revitalization Plan
 Elliott P. Laws, a leading advocate for environmental protection and economic revitalization and a former senior official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was named a 2013 recipient of a Brownfields Leadership Award from the National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals.

Wood Secures Grand Rapids Post Wood Secures Grand Rapids Post
The city of Grand Rapids’ Economic Development Director Kara Wood has been tapped to represent the city on the Association for Brownfield Redevelopment Authorities, a new statewide agency.

Brownfield Literature
 
Brownfields: A Comprehensive Guide to Redeveloping Contaminated Property, Third Edition Brownfields: A Comprehensive Guide to Redeveloping Contaminated Property, Third Edition
Todd S. Davis
Scott A. Sherman

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Renewal Magazine
 
Brownfield Renewal May 2013
Flying High: Preserving a Piece of Dayton History
When Orville and Wilbur Wright began constructing the first of their two airplane manufacturing hangars in 1910, the …

Aerotropolis Atlanta: Prepare to Expect the Unexpected ...

Just as seaports drove development in the 18th century, railroads drove development in the 19th century, and…

Combining Community Resiliency and Energy Efficiency Retrofits ...

The Rutgers Center for Green Building with the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB Hub) are enabling the gold…

Here’s the Dirt on a Chicago Redevelopment ...

One of the measuring sticks of urban redevelopment and reuse success can be traced to the “multi-benefit” dynamics…




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