We’ve heard recently about the vision and thinking outside the box execution required when operating within a miniscule city footprint: The 2012 Person of the Year Steven Azar is one who knows about dense city footprints potentially impinging redevelopment. Well, think NYC and you have density squared.
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Research from the University of Cincinnati published in the March issue of the Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management measures the impact of brownfields on nearby residential property values in the city of Cincinnati.
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The constant need to find alternative sources, methods and/or materials to reduce a building’s footprint is required at every phase of the building process, as the developer of the Fonstad Residence in Santa Cruz, Calif. discovered. …
Happy Hollow in Kentucky had been on the state’s list of uncontrolled landfills and considered to be a brownfield. Though no chemicals or hazardous wastes were ever known to have been accepted at the property, the environmental developer went beyond what was required by law to protect the environment. The community has now benefited from the revitalization of the area and the creation of jobs.
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Happy Hollow in Kentucky had been on the state’s list of uncontrolled landfills and considered to be a brownfield. Though no chemicals or hazardous wastes were ever known to have been accepted at the property, the environmental developer went beyond what was required by law to protect the environment. The community has now benefited from the revitalization of the area and the creation of jobs.
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In 2005, Oregon had $9.5 million in its Brownfield Redevelopment Fund for cleaning up contaminated sites around the state. Now, many loans and grants later, the fund is down to around $600,000, according to the Business Oregon Brownfield department. …
The Port of Sunnyside will use a $300,000 state grant to finish cleaning up contamination at the old Carnation industrial milk processing plant to protect the environment and to bring new business and family-wage jobs to the community. …
On the heels of the city of Muskegon approving a 70-lot $12 million residential development on Muskegon Lake. The site on the end of the Terrace Point property includes the Shoreline Inn and Conference Center that was once home to the historic Continental Motors plant, which has an environmental contamination issue. …
NorthPoint Development, a growing player in local industrial real estate and development, wants to attract new manufacturing opportunities to the 80-acre site of the old General Motors Fairfax plant that was demolished in 1987. …
Five projects, Persons of the Year (2011 and 2012) to be recognized for reuse and redevelopment excellence. …
CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), Lithia Springs,Ga., has worked closely with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality for a number of years to evaluate environmental impacts associated with a final remedial action plan for the Gautier Oil Site redevelopment in Gautier, Miss. …
Chattanooga’s 3rd Street Corridor will benefit from the utilization of a grant awards to The Enterprise Center by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. …
The city of Council Bluffs, Ia., is expected to land $166,500 for Brownfields property assessment that would be used for cleanup and reuse of its mid-city corridor, EPA Region 7 announced in late April. …
New York can cut the cost of its Brownfield cleanup program while at the same time making it more effective at cleaning up and reusing polluted properties, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said. …
When Shelby County began the initial development phase of transforming a local Brownfields site into a recreational greenway for community use, they focused on three key components.
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When BJ’s Wholesale Club observed the grand opening of its Brookfield store on December 15, 2012, the entire brownfield community had reason to celebrate. The126,000-sq-ft retail operation was the first project to be built and opened for business under Connecticut’s groundbreaking Brownfield Remediation and Revitalization Program (BRRP), also referred to as the Brownfield Liability Relief Program. …
The board of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh voted unanimously in May to adopt a new Tax Increment Finance District for the remaining undeveloped portions of Summerset at Frick Park, the 238-acre brownfield redevelopment in the city’s East End.
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The city of Grand Rapids’ Economic Development Director Kara Wood has been tapped to represent the city on the Association for Brownfield Redevelopment Authorities, a new statewide agency. …
Visitors to the Lower Schuylkill River area on a weekday morning will find views of the Philadelphia skyline, fields of grass, trees and even wild turkeys on the loose, but not a lot of people. Philadelphia officials also can see potential.
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