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By Jamie Nesbitt
Problem solving is a craft that requires equal parts logic, creativity and
finesse. Roosevelt employed this formula to rescue the country from the Great
Depression. Churchill applied it to broker international peace. MacGyver used
it—in addition to a Swiss Army knife and stick of chewing gum—to get himself out of trouble while saving the world. And Marcia Wallace draws
on it to clean up the world, or at least her little corner of it. The
brownfields coordinator for the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and
Housing has always been drawn to problem solving. For her, it’s not about the easy fix; it’s more about the journey en route to the solution.
“I like the messiness of problems without easy solutions,” says Wallace, who was handpicked to run the newly created office in December
2005. “I’m drawn to things that involve talking to people and getting different
perspectives. It’s daily problem solving at a strategic level that I enjoy most. And in this
industry, you don’t really see the mess until you fall into it.”
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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…
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PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Industry Profiles
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Kathy Webb Greenville, SC
principal, SynTerra Corp.
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Graham Stevens Hartford, CT
Brownfields Coordinator for the Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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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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