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By Charlie Bartsch
As brownfield sites have become a priority topic for a
growing range of players — from city agencies to corporate leaders as
well as environmental activists — so has their treatment in state
legislatures and agencies across the US. States are taking an increasingly
active role in promoting the identification, cleanup, and redevelopment of
contaminated sites. State-level creativity and innovation in meeting a
whole host of brownfield needs has been the hallmark of this issue, with
many viable — and alternative — approaches being put into place
to meet the multiple challenges and common objectives of brownfield reuse.
In just the last two years, many states initiated new programs while others
modified their current programs to reflect changes necessitated by the
state of brownfields in their area. Tracking information on the impact of
these brownfield programs, regardless of type or size, further shows the
evolution of these efforts. Because program size, staffing, and
financing varies so widely across the United States, it is difficult to
expect or assume that all states keep this type of quantifiable information
on hand. Many programs are just too new to know the impact of their
efforts or have too few resources to monitor and collect this data.
Nonetheless, as a means of assessing the effectiveness and usefulness
of specific brownfield initiatives, these impacts provide a common ground
for comparison. Increasingly, states are finding that the benefits are
worth their investment.
In this companion chart to
the “Brownfields State of the State Report,” five common
redevelopment benefit areas have been identified to get a sense of the
impact of the various brownfield programs and information on them collected
to the extent available. The five, referred to collectively within
this chart as economic impacts, are:
number of sites that entered the program and/or
subsequently completed it;
jobs created;
housing units developed;
tax revenues added to the local economy; and
businesses created.
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