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COVER STORY --
By Heather Farina
When Joan Wales, BP’s VP of strategy and
planning remediation management, spoke of speed dating at the International
Brownfield Summit in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in June, she wasn’t
referring to the cocktail reception that rounded out the conference’s
first day of activities.
Specifically, Wales was talking about the subject of
redeveloping brownfields …
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Features
Feature Story
By Paul Albanese
I have heard it all when it comes to designing a golf
course on a brownfield: Can you design the methane stacks as hazards on the
course? If …
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Feature Story
By Nancy S. Myers, Gary K. DeClark, MAI, CRE, FRICS
The valuation of parkland today is increasingly needed in light of the growing mandate for municipalities, forest preserve districts and conservation not-for-profits to preserve and increase open space or “green space” within their boundaries.
The appraiser’s particular problem in the market …
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Feature Story
By Michael R. Taylor, CAE
The redevelopment of environmentally impaired
properties often includes demolition. Property owners, developers,
planners, architects, environmental engineering contractors and government
agencies are turning to the …
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Regional Report
By Cathy Brubaker-Clarke, Annah Backstrom
The City of Muskegon, Michigan, has been regenerating itself. Surrounded by Muskegon Lake and Lake Michigan, it began its economic boom in the mid-nineteenth century. It was originally a lumber town, became a World War I and II industrial center, …
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Lakeview Bluffs, a regional sports resort community
planned for a 1,100 acre brownfield site along Lake Erie in Lake County,
Ohio, is the brainchild of IMG, the world’s …
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By Lance Warner, Kelly Kresser
The City of Sandusky, Ohio, is located on the
southernmost shore of Lake Erie and is the gateway to the Lake Erie
Islands. The shallow depth of the …
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Elizabeth, New Jersey, is enjoying restored traffic
islands thanks to a collaboration between Groundwork Elizabeth, the City of
Elizabeth and other groups.Groundwork Elizabeth, as part of a network …
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The N BA (N BA) recently piloted Site Technical Assistance for Municipal Properties (STAMP) in Mantua Township, New Jersey.
The township was chosen by the N BA to receive technical redevelopment advice and assistance on a brownfield property under a new …
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Massachusetts
Smart Growth Massachusetts reported the Brownfields
Redevelopment Fund has been chaptered into law as Chapter 148 of the Acts
of 2006. $30 million …
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By Donald C. Nanney, Esq., Chris Falbo
Urban developers have grown more sophisticated in
brownfield risk management. One risk management tool — pollution
liability insurance — is touted by insurers to protect a
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A federal court ruled that U.S. Superfund law applies
to Teck Cominco Metals of Canada, even though the pollution that occurred
in Washington state originated in Canada. This …
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Smart Growth Around America reported that voters in
Napa County, California, rejected by a wide margin a measure that would
have required governments to pay to enforce planning, …
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By Roger Register, Teri L. Donaldson
On June 22, 2006, Governor Bush signed legislation
overhauling Florida’s brownfield program and, in doing so, placed
Florida first in the nation in terms of the amount of …
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National News
The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) recently published its Recommended Principles on Contaminated Sites Liability. The updated version includes a new principle which allows for the possible transfer of environmental regulatory liability for a contaminated …
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Departments
Ask the Expert
By Todd S. Davis, Esq.
Dear Todd,
I need to pick a team for a large brownfield
development project, but I am totally baffled by the marketing in the
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Briefs
BEDI Reauthorization Milestone
In a 286 to 130 vote on June 16, the House of
Representatives restored funding for HUD’s Brownfields Economic
Development Initiative …
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That IS How You Spell “Relief”
My compliments on Chris Olson’s article in the
June issue of Brownfield News. In particular, his #3 — Flip Side of
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Policy
By Charlie Bartsch
The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act provided the U.S. EPA brownfield program with a
Congressional mandate along with funding and procedural tools — and
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Technical
By Ken Kastman, PE
Technology has had a significant role in making
brownfield redevelopments safe for vacationers. For this issue, I polled my
brownfield colleagues at URS and found some great examples …
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Unknown Complainer
Will more sprawl come as a result of the groundswell
of opposition to the use of eminent domain to revive blighted and
contaminated sites in our cities and …
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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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Melanie Gregg Buffalo
Community Programs Marketing Manager for the City of Buffalo Economic
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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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