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By Grace Hill-Putnam
When the first Model T rolled off the line in 1908, it took twelve and a half hours to make and had an $850 price tag. 10,600 were sold that first year. By 1927, the tin lizzies were flying off the line at a rate of one every hour and a half, and selling for less than $300 a pop. When all was said and done, more than 15 million Model T’s were sold and America had been ushered into …
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Features
International Focus
By Stuart Tait
If you ask most American redevelopment
authorities—whether federal, state and sometimes even local—to
state the number and nature of brownfield properties under their
jurisdiction …
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At first glance it would appear that brownfield
transactions would decrease due to the recent economic slowdown and
volatility in the stock market. There is less money available …
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By John H. Kazanjian
The Legal Concerns of Historic Insurance -
Insurance Archeology Part 2
Brownfield developers may be able to tap the insurance
of prior site owners …
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By Richard M. Daley
This summer the city of Chicago will open the Midwest
Center for Green Technology in an industrial area three miles west of
downtown. It will house Spire Solar …
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Special Advertising Section
Tax Credits Give a Boost to Michigan’s
Manufacturing and Technology Industries
Michigan’s emerging high-tech industries are
growing out of the state’s strengths in manufacturing. Now, the state
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Special Advertising Section
Just as its wide-ranging economy offers businesses
and developers a surfeit of opportunity, Michigan presents a huge variety
of things to see and do to the state’s visitors. …
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By Rachael Droege
Federal News
The Senate passed S. 350 a bipartisan bill that will provide funds and reforms federal brownfield liability. The bill passed unanimously, with 99 senators voting in favor and one senator, Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.), not voting. The Brownfields Revitalization …
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The Jaundiced View
By Peter M. Gillon
At the recent National Deal Flow Conference in Chicago, participants in the Developers Section meeting addressed an interesting and little discussed issue: the difficulty in overcoming bureaucratic inertia and employee resistance in convincing a property owner to offer a brownfield …
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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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Sadhu Johnston City of Chicago
Chief Environmental Officer, Deputy Chief of Staff, Mayor's Office
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Gail Rawls Jeter Columbia, S.C.
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
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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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