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 Philadelphia’s drive to establish greenways along the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers is
underway.
In 1683, William Penn appointed his surveyor-general Thomas Holm to plan the
street layout for Philadelphia as a “Greene Country Towne” stretching from river to river, covering roughly the reaches of today’s Center City Philadelphia. Somehow along the way over the last 300 years, Center City, not unlike the
pattern of many American cities, lost its connections to its two rivers—railroads, industry and expressways interposed as barriers between citizenry and
water. Over the last fifteen years, the City has undertaken the painstaking process of
recapturing the two waterfronts, parcel-by-parcel, legislative act by
legislative act – with the goal of creating people-friendly and accessible greenways for runners,
strollers, cyclers, roller-skaters, boaters and dog-walkers. This panel will tell the story of the challenges and creative solutions for
reviving the city’s two waterfronts.
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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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Rick Shean New Mexico Environment Dept., Albuquerque
Brownfields revolving loan fund coordinator and remediation oversight
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David R. Lloyd Washington, D.C.
Director, Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
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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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