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By Mike McLaughlin, Joe Miller
Developers of commercial office parks might want to talk trash. The old
municipal landfill, with its existing access road network and smart growth bona
fides, could make an excellent site for office buildings and related land uses.
However, knowing that foundation support, special utility improvements,
landfill gas control, and liner maintenance will be required to assure safe and
successful redevelopment may cause developers to shy away. The Redwood Shores
municipal landfill in Redwood City, California, is proving that landfill
development, maintenance and monitoring challenges are not insurmountable. The
site is now home to successful commercial businesses.
The 85-acre Redwood Shores site served as a municipal waste landfill from the
1940s to 1970. Approximately 4 to 10 feet of fill soils were placed over the
waste in 1978. The site remained vacant until 1998, when general contractor
Vance Brown, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., asked SCS Engineers to provide landfill
engineering, permitting and construction management services for the planned
$150 million, 1 million-square-foot Westport Office Park.
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Industry Profiles
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Kathy Webb Greenville, SC
principal, SynTerra Corp.
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Madeleine Kellam Atlanta, Ga.
Brownfields Coordinator, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Department of Natural Resources
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Jason Seyler Helena, Mont.
Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality
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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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