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By Nicole A. Walker
Whether he was Director of Planning and Development for the city of St. Paul or
Senior Vice President of the St. Paul Port Authority, Ken Johnson has been a pillar in the world of municipal community and economic development.
As Senior Vice President of the St. Paul Port Authority, Johnson, and his team
of 20 are responsible for all facets of Port Authority business. The Port Authority has been around since 1932 and is responsible for the city’s harbors and the $12 million worth of commodities, like corn and wheat, that
leave the Port of St. Paul. Not your average port authority, it is a non-unionized organization that can
appear much like a quasi-development company in that it partners with private
lenders to offer financing to buyers under one loan. Furthermore, the agency’s entire operating budget is funded by fees, not taxes. To that end, the Port
Authority can do what the private sector can’t afford to do. The hook is that it is not looking to make a profit, but rather it wants to
return sites to productive uses so that the land is eligible for development.
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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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Industry Profiles
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Jason Seyler Helena, Mont.
Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality
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Laurie Burt, Massachusetts
Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
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Alan McCammon British Columbia
Member, Management Team, Land Remediation (Contaminated sites), Ministry of Environment, British Columbia
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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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