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COVER STORY --
By William P. Lynott
Because LandBank is a pioneer in the evolving
brownfields industry. Brownfield News asked company co-founder Bill Lynott
to reflect on the firm’s early roots, the industry’s evolution
and its future.
My partner, Stuart Miner, and I spent more than 20
years as environmental consultants to corporate America. In 1995, the
environmental consulting …
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Features
Big Box Retail
By Mark Johnson
Retailing has been divided between market-based sales methods and distributive methods. That is, it has been divided between “you go to them” and “they come to you” sale strategy.
The earliest “markets”—the land where nomadic, hunter-gatherer societies lived—were you go to …
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Case Study
Site name: South Side Works
Location: Pittsburgh
Owner: Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)
Lot size: 123-acre riverfront site
Number of buildings: 28 total, not all are
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First Person
By Paul D. Cohen
Significant inroads have been made to facilitate
brownfield redevelopment and this progress is helping to reverse the once
commonly held idea that cleaning up contaminated sites is too …
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By Daniel E. Johnson, Leah Guthridge
A few months ago, the city of San Diego adopted several
strategies to address the city’s lack of affordable housing. One
highly controversial strategy is the “inclusionary housing …
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By Terri Smith
End-use is driving cleanup as both federal and state
environmental agencies have okayed remediation that cleans a site to levels
suited to particular kinds of reuse. Over the …
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By Katherine Linnell, Richard LoCastro, P.G. John Musco, Nicholas De Rose, P.G.
As part of an effort to evaluate innovative approaches
for cutting environmental investigation costs at brownfield sites, the
EPA’s Triad Approach was recently used at two brownfield sites …
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Small Business Perspective
By Robert Cox
The first four words of the brownfield bill signed into
law last January brought hope to those of us who still own small businesses
that are or might …
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Technology Case Study
By Rayo Bhumgara
Background/History
The Crosstown Center Development site located in
Boston occupies six acres and currently consists of a 50,000 square foot
building, paved parking lots, …
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Departments
Jaundiced View
By Peter M. Gillon
Here in Washington we are accustomed to government
waste. It is part of our proud culture. But when it comes to the EPA, it is
particularly troubling to …
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Federal News
EPA All Appropriate Inquiry Committee
On April 28, the EPA held the first meeting to create a standard for all appropriate inquiry under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitalization Act. A cross section of interest groups …
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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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Renate Mengelberg Oregon City, OR
Economic development manager, Clackamas County Business and Economic Development
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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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