Parts of the Midwest are
more heavily industrialized. Areas along the Gulf, West Coast and the Great
Lakes have waterfront issues that are as serious. Some Sunbelt cities may
have similar crowding and sprawl issues. But only the Mid-Atlantic region
faces all those problems—and more.
The …
It is common to hear of brownfield sites being
converted from unusable spaces to productive areas. A less commonly heard
phrase, at least in the brownfield market, adaptive reuse, describes the
process of converting abandoned or obsolete buildings into productive
use.
Adaptive reuse is popping …
William T. McCormick Jr.
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of CMS Energy Corporation
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William McCormick has driven Michigan-based CMS Energy to new heights as an international energy company. We have selected him as our Person of the Month for his dedication …
In the article about
Kansas City in the January/February issue of Brownfield News there are some
inaccuracies and omissions of important facts. First, the article pictured
former Mayor Emanuel Cleaver II; however, the current mayor of Kansas City,
Mo. is Kay Barnes. There are also a number of success stories …
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 …
To most Americans,
Buffalo, N.Y.
is the home of the Buffalo Bills or maybe the birthplace
of Buffalo chicken wings. Few know that Buffalo was an industrial
powerhouse whose growth began to skyrocket in 1825 when the Erie Canal
opened.
As the western terminus of …
Greening the House
The “Environmental Congressman” puts brownfields at the top of the Capital Hill agenda—the reason we’ve named him our Person of the Month.
Congressman
Sherwood Boehlert
If Congressman Sherwood
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Al Gore
Brownfields have entered the debate in the
presidential campaign—Governor Bush presented …
When Brownfield News began examining brownfield policy and development on a city-by-city basis in 1998 it was obvious that there was no single, one-size-fits-all approach.
The history and economy of different cities led to different kinds of industrial development and consequently to the creation of different kinds of brownfields. In some …
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 …
For over a hundred years, the metal finishing industry has existed in America, quietly touching our lives without being noticed by the general public. The industry exist as a portal through …
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All the talk about sprawl in recent years has missed the larger issue, which is how the loss of quality of life threatens future growth and prosperity. Sprawl is simply one form of development that has come to symbolize a negative form of growth, but other forms are available.
A …
Ralph Nader
While issues such as education, health care, and
military preparedness dominate the presidential campaign, brownfields, and
related issues such as sprawl, rebuilding industry, job creation, and
environmental policy, are …
The site that was once home to a steel and coke processing facility will be transformed into a mixed-use redevelopment thanks to a sizable grant from regional utility
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