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By Deborah English, Richard Enfield
What could be more pleasant than a riverside park with a marina, camping and
multi-use trails within minutes of the revitalized downtown of a major
metropolitan area? Kansas City, Mo., is developing such a park along the
Missouri River on the closed Riverfront Landfill. When completed, the new
Riverfront Park will complement the economic goals of ongoing downtown
development projects and contribute to greenspace sustainability objectives.
The proposed plan for the park illustrates the advantages of greenspace
redevelopment in the face of the general challenges common to all brownfield
projects, as well as the challenges specific to landfill redevelopment.
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Industry Profiles
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Eric Williams Denver, Colo.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Frontier Renewal
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April Laliberte Flagstaff, Ariz.
Brownfield Specialist, Economic Vitality Division
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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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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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