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COVER STORY --
By Todd S. Davis
Mention the name “Diamond Shamrock” to locals in the Cleveland area and you’re likely to get an immediate, negative reaction. People inevitably think about the company’s contentious past and the legacy it left behind when it ceased operations more than 25 years ago: a massive piece of prime lakefront property, permanently fenced off due to unquantified chemical contamination.
Of course, as is often the case with brownfields, public perception is based more on misinformation and fear than …
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Features
Brownfield Performance Measures
By Renante U. Marante, David J. Reynolds
It’s Friday afternoon, the mayor’s chief of staff calls and asks you to prepare a report with specific facts and figures about how many brownfield properties have been cleaned to date, how many private sector dollars have been invested into …
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Canadian Corner
By Luciano Piccioni
Just like the Americans did several years ago, Canadians are beginning to recognize the benefits of redeveloping our brownfield properties. Through this column I will provide insight to the Canadian brownfield market as it evolves into what we hope will …
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Case Study
Case Study: Erie Front Street Project
Site Name: Erie Front Street Project
Location: Erie, Pennsylvania
Previous owner/developer: …
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By Brian Eggers
An economically feasible, sustainable funding mechanism
For developers and communities alike, one of the biggest barriers to overcome
when redeveloping brownfield property is the cost of environmental activities.
The question often asked is …
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By Terri Smith, Leah Yasenchak
Last year, the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Underground Storage Tanks launched the USTFields pilot program by
providing ten states $100,000 each to cover the costs associated with the
cleanup of petroleum-contaminated sites. These …
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Departments
Back on Track
By Philip P. Johnson
Most railroad remediation involves removing the rail remnants and replacing them
with something entirely different. In Detroit, the Michigan Central Railroad
Station remained and was remade as part of a new kind of railroad.
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Fixing Superfund with Brownfield Dollars
Environmental program funding debates generally do not generate headlines. Thus,
it was quite odd to see the front page of July 1’s New York Times scream: “Bush Slashing Aid for EPA Cleanup at 33 Toxic Sites.” …
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Industry watch
By Valerie Green
The EPA’s brownfield program held four listening sessions in early April to discuss implementation of the new brownfields law, formally called the “Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act” (catchy acronym: SBLRBRA). Participants included environmental justice, private sector, and …
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Industry watch
Philadelphia Brownfields Growing Greener
The Pennsylvania Dept. of
Environmental Protection’s Office of Pollution Prevention and
Compliance Assistance (OPPCA) has issued a
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Industry watch
Triangle Laboratories, a Durham, N.C. based analytical lab, announced the introduction of Rapidscreen, a new technology designed to screen for dioxins, furans and PCBs in soil. The new method is expected to reduce costs and time needed from current methods.
A …
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Industry watch
SouthTrust Bank’s Atlanta operations will get a new home in 2004. Bank officials announced that the company has signed a lease as the name tenant for a new main Atlanta office to be built at the Atlantic Station development …
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The Brownfield Supply Index is an average of the daily closing stock prices of a
wide range of publicly-traded companies that own a large number of industrial
properties multiplied by 100. The BSI tracks the stock …
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Technology Case Study
By Robert McGrath
Background/History: An underground storage tank leaking petroleum into the soil and groundwater at a
dormant Watertown, Massachusetts, industrial site presented challenges besides
simply remediating the contaminants. The property owner needed the cleanup
completed within six months, …
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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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Kristina Smitten Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Principal of Smitten Group, serving private and public clients in the areas of brownfield redevelopment
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Roger Hathaway Hartford, CT
P.E., Vice President and Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) practice leader, GEI Consultants Inc.
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Jon M. Williams Buffalo, N.Y
Founder, Ontario Specialty Contracting, Inc. (OSC)
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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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