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By Ileen Gladstone, P.E., LSP, LEED AP, GEI Consultants
 For many years, construction boomed in Boston. Transportation projects such as the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project, known as the “Big Dig,” and the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Silverline Transit Line entailed the construction of thousands of feet of tunnels beneath an active, bustling city.
New office buildings, healthcare and academic complexes, apartments and condominiums, hotels and mixed-use buildings were erected throughout the city. Because Boston is a dense, highly-developed urban area, this construction often includes going underground—sometimes very deep—which almost always means managing contaminated soils. And in Massachusetts, it means complying with complex state regulations for the cleanup of contaminated properties.
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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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