Transportation (TOD)
Detroit’s Central Station
Most railroad remediation involves removing the rail remnants and replacing them
with something entirely different. In Detroit, the Michigan Central Railroad
Station remained and was remade as part of a new kind of railroad.
Bustling with activity during the mid-1900s, Detroit’s Michigan Central Railroad Station fell victim to years of declining rail
transport and neglect, and remained unused …
Company & People News
SouthTrust Bank’s Atlanta operations will get a new home in 2004. Bank officials announced that the company has signed a lease as the name tenant for a new main Atlanta office to be built at the Atlantic Station development in midtown Atlanta. The new office building is being developed by AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp.
BEM Systems, Inc. recently introduced version 3.1 of its PAECETrak …
Brownfields, Technology and Urban Landforms
If we are to unlock the keys to private investment in
the rejuvenation of brownfield properties, then we must first understand
the context that has contributed to their abandonment.
Brownfield sites were not abandoned just because they
were contaminated. The contamination rather must be viewed as just another
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Refinishing an Industry
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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Industry Profiles
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H. Keith DuBois
Brownfields Program Coordinator, New Hampshire Dept. of Environmental Services (NHDES)
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Count On It
  28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 509 approximate number of operational landfill gas (LFG) energy projects currently in the United States. LFG electricity generation projects provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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