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By Steve Dwyer
 Portland, Oregon's reputation precede itself when it comes to demonstrating leading-edge renewable resource initiatives. It's a mentality marked by maximum effort witnessed through civic cooperation and the rolling up of sleeves to set gold standards for green living.
The latest maximum effort is reflected through a transit-oriented development aptly named MAX—as in MAX Light Rail, a commuter rail and streetcar service along key Portland corridors geared to connect regional centers. It's all part of the "Rose City's" quest to build the "Total Transit System" by enhancing customer information, access to transit, stop amenities, frequency, reliability, passenger comfort, safety and security, states Mary Fetsch, communications director for TriMet, a municipal corporation of the state of Oregon. A public body, TriMet has broad powers to provide mass transportation on behalf of the district, with the power to issue general obligation and revenue bonds.
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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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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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by VeruTEK
A property located on a bank of the East River and in a densely developed residential and commercial area, had its work cut out for it from an environmental remediation standpoint. The mission was to clean up the land and ultimately make one puzzle piece to a larger urban revitalization project that would be redeveloped as a public library and park ranger station.
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