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COVER STORY --
By Elizabeth Brewster
With 32 innovative brownfield projects to choose from in selecting the 2010 Brownfield Renewal Awards, our independent panel of judges had their work cut out for them this year.
The three diverse projects they selected represent the gold standard of brownfield redevelopment across three distinct industry spheres of influence:
• Social Impact: Manchester Street Park, Lawrence, Mass.
• Economic Impact: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minn.
• Environmental Impact: Stafford Park, Stafford Township, N.J.
Although the three winning projects range in size from five to …
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Features
Case Study
By Eric Weinstock, Shefali Sanghvi and Heather Gershen
Brownfields have been defined as “property that has remained idle, abandoned or underutilized because of contamination or the threat of contamination.” That definition certainly applies to the Atlantic Terrance property prior to its redevelopment. Located …
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Commercial Redevelopment
By Todd S. Davis
On a scorching hot day in June 2009, a team from Duke-Hemisphere Redevelopment
visited a hulking 1.5-million square foot Delphi Automotive plant near
Columbus, Ohio. Walking through the plant was like a journey back in …
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Green Building Strategies
By Elizabeth Brewster
So far, the moniker for one of their newest schools has proven to be a very inconvenient truth for Los Angeles school officials.
The Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences, an environmentally themed elementary school that opened Sept. 13 in the Arlington …
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Insurance Focus
By Kevin Haroff
Insurance is often considered a source of funds to compensate developers for the
cost of cleaning up environmentally contaminated properties. Older general
comprehensive liability policies may provide coverage for property damage
caused by a release of …
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Insurance Focus
A navigation guide to selecting the right insurance program for your project
Click here to view this guide in pdf.
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Regional Report
By Steve Dwyer
In Kentucky, the brownfield redevelopment contingent is “throwing a party”—but not the type of party one would assume. In an effort to drive Kentucky
brownfield redevelopment to a higher level, these parties are known as “grant …
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By Dawn E. Seeburger
Everyone loves an underdog—in sports, in business and beyond. Consider the city of Ranson, West Va., and
its sister city, Charles Town, which are located about an hour northwest of
Washington, D.C., at the edge of …
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Brooke Furio,
Sustainable Local Government Lead, Superfund Division, Community & LandRevitalization Branch, U.S. EPA, Region 5—Cleveland.
Since the late 1990’s …
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PROPERTY SIZE/END USE: Warrensville Heights, Ohio is an …
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PROPERTY SIZE/END USE: Tech Town is a 30-acre urban office campus strategically located in downtown
Dayton near Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the University of Dayton and Wright State University.
Tech Town is one anchor of …
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PROPERTY SIZE/END USE: The 20-acre redevelopment includes a 5-plus acre former Kidde Brass & Aluminum foundry located less than three blocks from the Ranson City offices on
the Commerce Corridor. The mixed-use urban infill development is designed …
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Breaking Ground
By Michael Stringer, Maul Foster Alongi and John Means
The first time you visit Palouse, Wash. you start making plans to move there. The
Palouse region of southeast Washington State is one of the most photogenic
landscapes in the country with endless rolling hills of …
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Brownfield Briefs
Andrew Brack,
Partner Engineering, Principal, National Site Mitigation Practice
Brack brings to Partner more than 18 years of experience in natural resource management, brownfield redevelopment, soil and groundwater assessment and remediation and renewable energy development. During his career, Brack has …
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Editor's Letter
By Steve Dwyer
In the quest to identify and hail the gold standard of brown, the second-annual
Renewal Awards went off without a hitch (see Cover story) this fall. It's a
beautiful thing when the decision-process to acknowledge excellence …
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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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Timothy Murray Boston, Mass.
Lieutenant Governor, state of Massachusetts
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Rita Kottke Oklahoma
Brownfield Program Manager, Oklahoma Dept. of Environmental Quality
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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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Senior Environmental Practice Leader, GEI Consultants
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