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By Eugene Goldfarb
 In terms of funding, if not actual policy development, HUD’s three major program areas have been very active players in the brownfield arena. The CPD (Office of Community Planning and Development) third of HUD, for instance, in FY ’06 spent over $331 million on property acquisition (including $7.4 million specifically on brownfield cleanup); $127 million on various economic development activities that included commercial/industrial rehab and construction, acquisition, infrastructure; $70 million on housing construction; $127 million on 108 loan repayments; and $1.5 billion on public improvements under its flagship CDBG program.
The Office of Public & Indian Housing (PIH) has also been a significant contributor. Since 1993 over $6 billion has been spent on rebuilding public housing through its HOPE VI program, and given that most public housing was first constructed in the 1940s and 50s on land no one else wanted, much of this rebuilding has included cleanup.
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Kristina Smitten Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Principal of Smitten Group, serving private and public clients in the areas of brownfield redevelopment
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Linda Lannen San Diego, Calif.
Chief Information Officer, Kleinfelder
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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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