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By Elizabeth Brewster
Promoting brownfield interests in Washington is a little like always being the new kid at school, say insiders: You have to figure out where you fit into the crowd and make a place for yourself there.
The brownfield redevelopment agenda has natural affinities with many other issues but has always struggled to develop an identity of its own, says Charlie Bartsch, a senior fellow at ICF International in Washington, D.C., with more than 25 years of experience in brownfield reuse policy …
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Brett Davidson, President and CEO, Wavefront Technology Solutions, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
You could say that Wavefront Technology Solutions' Brett Davidson and his team like to go with the flow. The company's Primawave technology is becoming a compelling solution in …
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By Todd Adams
Many of us who spent years in the environmental insurance space know one thing: There have been significant level of change in the Brownfield landscape during the past decade regarding the redevelopment of Canadian sites.
Canadian brownfield redevelopment continues to …
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Features
Breaking Ground
By Daniel Burns
Once a rail yard for Union Pacific Railroad, Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas is one of the most ambitious brownfield redevelopment programs in the country. The city of Las Vegas aims to convert 61 acres of a former …
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Focus: Outsourcing
By Elizabeth Brewster
Four years ago, the problem of New Jersey’s contaminated sites backlog came to a head with the “Kiddie Kollege” disaster: A day care facility was found to have been built on unremediated property that had once housed a thermometer …
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Perspective
By Evans Paull
Are third-party and toxic tort protections the next wave of brownfields reforms? Gerald Pouncey, an attorney who has been involved in over 250 brownfield projects nationally, believes that state and federal reforms are going to have to go that direction …
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Perspective
By Dan Welby
Cities and towns across the United States have considerable incentive to remediate and reuse their brownfields. Besides protecting the environment, communities that succeed at putting contaminated sites back into productive use reduce blight, alleviate urban sprawl, attract new businesses and …
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Regional Report
By Steve Dwyer
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By Steve Dwyer
Jason Seyler, Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality, Helena, Mont.
As the Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Seyler works with non-profits, communities, and developers to facilitate the assessment and cleanup of releases of hazardous substances at Brownfield sites in …
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LOCATION: Sheridan, Wyo.
LAND USE: A paved parking and pedestrian area used by the community to access the city of Sheridan’s walking path/trail system along Little Goose Creek near Alger Avenue.
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.59 acres.
TOTAL PROJECT VALUE: …
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LOCATION: Ogden, Utah.
CURRENT USE: An office building complex leased to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
BACKGROUND: Block 37/A in Ogden was the site of the former Ogden Iron Works, auto repair shops, …
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LOCATION: Lewistown, Mont.
BACKGROUND: Located along the west bank of Big Spring Creek one-mile south of Lewistown on Route 238, the Facility is a former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul/Burlington Northern railroad switching yard and roundhouse …
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MONTANA
The Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Bureau is the Bureau that plans, implements, and oversees remedial actions at facilities with hazardous or deleterious substance releases. These typically occur at commercial and industrial facilities, transportation facilities, municipal landfills, and similar facilities …
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View from the Field
By Michael Goldstein
In June 2007, Leonard Pitts, a legendary columnist for The Miami Herald, launched a year-long look at programs that are elevating the dire circumstances facing many African American children in America today. He called his series simply, "What Works." In …
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View from the Field
By Ken Kastman
Industry participants need to rethink their overall and long-term approach to energy technology. So theorizes Patrick Moore of the Clean and Safe Energy coalition, who sees technology and brownfield developments merging closer together. He is challenging industry stakeholders to …
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From the Editor
By Steve Dwyer
Everyone needs a good advocate—someone to step up to the plate and represent their best interests. Interests that plead or defend the cause of another.
In Washington, D.C. brownfield advocates might come in the form of professional lobbyists …
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Green Professionals
By Steve Dwyer
Chris Bley and an associate had one of those “ah ha” moments back in 2000 when they parlayed their passion for their hobby, rock climbing, into a lucrative career: Wind turbine maintenance.
Bley and Eric Stanfield, who are …
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In Transit
By Steve Dwyer
The state of Illinois in March took a historic step toward creating a bullet train network when the Illinois Senate passed a bill creating the Illinois and Midwest High Speed Rail Commission. The 12-member commission is expected to issue …
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Legislative Briefs
By Charlie Bartsch
Congress has returned from its spring recess, after its bitter and exhausting deliberations over health care—a process which (to quote a prominent state and local lobbyist) “sucked all the oxygen right out of the Capitol.”
The spring “time …
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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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Laurie Burt, Massachusetts
Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
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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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