Case Study: Erie Front Street Project
Site Name: Erie Front Street Project
Location: Erie, Pennsylvania
Previous owner/developer: GPU Energy (2000)
Current owner: Nick Scott, Erie, Pa.
Lot size: 33.5 acres (20 separate parcels)
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The former EKCO site in Easthampton, Mass., now the site of a new storage site for a local …
A Look Back at the Cities and Regions Covered by
Brownfield News in 1999
1999 is not that long ago,
unless you’re measuring time with a brownfield scale. Using that
measure, 1999 is almost an eternity ago—the industry changes that
fast.
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Federal News
A new initiative to encourage the redevelopment of brownfield sites under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act was announced by the Environmental Protection Agency. The initiative is part of a new round of RCRA corrective action reforms released by the EPA. Although brownfield rehabilitation traditionally has been associated with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)because many brownfield sites are abandoned the EPA is beginning to …
Over the last decade, cities across America have faced
both municipal and military airport closures with significant concern. With
job losses, thousands of acres of potentially fallow land and a tangle of
jurisdictions looming before them, the federal government, local
authorities and developers have found some surprising new uses for …
In New England, the Industrial Cycle Comes Full Circle
The former Riverside Mills Property in Providence,
R.I., is a time capsule of New England’s industrial history. In 1863,
a firm known as Champlin & Downes built a four-story textile factory
and a series of different mill operators used the building …
When the first Model T rolled off the line in 1908, it took twelve and a half hours to make and had an $850 price tag. 10,600 were sold that first year. By 1927, the tin lizzies were flying off the line at a rate of one every hour and a half, and selling for less than $300 a pop. When all was said and done, more than 15 million …
This summer the city of Chicago will open the Midwest
Center for Green Technology in an industrial area three miles west of
downtown. It will house Spire Solar Chicago, a manufacturer of solar energy
equipment employing 100 people, along with Greencorps Chicago, the
city’s own community greening and job skills …
For over one hundred and fifty years, American cities and towns lit their homes, factories and boulevards with manufactured gas. Replaced by natural gas, manufactured gas was phased out by the mid-twentieth century and American utility companies, municipalities and private property owners now face the …
In a story titled “An Attempt to Compile a Short
History of the Buffalo Chicken Wing,” Time magazine columnist and
author Calvin Trillin reports that the origin of Buffalo chicken
wings–fried chicken wings smothered in Frank’s RedHot brand
pepper sauce–was the Anchor Bar on Main St. in Buffalo.
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Information pours into the offices of Brownfield News and we keep you on top of the latest trends, issues, and information in brownfield development.
EPA News
If you’d like a copy of the 1999 Brownfields National Partnership Agenda Accomplishments Report go to www.epa.gov/brownfields/99a.htm. The report is a very useful compendium of …
Greenfields, Brownfields, Timfields On July 1, 1999, the U.S. Senate confirmed President
Clinton’s nomination of Timothy Fields Jr. as the USEPA Assistant
Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER).
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Federal Resource Guide
While states and cities are in the forefront of brownfield development, the federal government has a large number of programs scattered through many agencies that deal with brownfield issues. As expected, the EPA´has taken the lead, but others, such as Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Defense and the Economic Development Administration also play important roles. Other agencies, such as the National …
Laying the Tracks for Redevelopment
Marshall Williams drives CSX’s …
The following projects illustrate the range and uniqueness of brownfield sites and remediation techniques and show how remediation is driven by economic and development factors. Regulatory standards protective of human health and the environment must be met in any cleanup activity, including brownfields. However, different approaches are being …
In order to carry out
Chevron Pipeline Company’s plans to decommission and sell a portion
of a pipeline transfer station at a prime commercial location in Southern
California, a major remediation project was undertaken. Soil and
groundwater impacted with heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons had to be
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Natural Disasters and Brownfields
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1
“The term ‘act of God’ means an unanticipated grave natural disaster or other natural phenomenon of an exceptional, inevitable, and irresistible character, the effects of which could not have been prevented or avoided by the exercise of due care or …
