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Accelerating Economic Development:The Area-Wide Approach of the Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program
by Jody Kass, Laura Truettner, John Fleming, and Jeff Jones
The new report by New Partners for Community Revitalization (NPCR) shows how New York State is revitalizing neighborhoods plagued by multiple brownfield sites, while stimulating economic growth and creating local jobs.
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Smart Growth Outlook 2011: Challenges and Opportunities in Brownfields, Area-wide Planning & Implementation
By Jody Kass, Laura Truettner, John Fleming, Jeff Jones
Brownfields redevelopment policy in New York is in transition as the area-wide approach emerges as an innovative tool for urban revitalization. In this New Partners for Community Revitalization report, the authors review how the innovative Brownfield Opportunity Areas (BOA) program has gone from launch to landing at the heart of New York State’s downtown redevelopment programs. The report traces the link between policies initiated locally in underserved communities to address multiple brownfield sites, to an integrated smart growth approach that makes resources available for community and municipal leaders and residents to envision the post-cleanup future of their neighborhoods. The second half of the white paper outlines the 7 key elements of the area-wide approach.
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The Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program: Smart Investments Laying the Groundwork for Economic Development, June 2011
by Laura Truettner
In April, 2011, New York State awarded $6.5 million in new grants under its landmark Brownfield Opportunity Areas (BOA) program, bringing the total state investment in BOA to $34 million. In this report, the author demonstrates how BOA has the potential to create between 30,000 to 50,000 brownfield related jobs, with an annual wage-related tax flow of $165 million for the state. There are now 110 New York communities active in the BOA program, using the area-side approach to address clusters of brownfields impacting whole neighborhoods. Recognizing that the “one-parcel-at-a-time” approach will not result in the revitalization of distressed areas, the area-wide approach is about creating value and the emerging green economy. This report documents the job creation and economic development advantages of the BOA program. It concludes with a discussion of the environmental and social benefits of the area-wide approach.
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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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Alan McCammon British Columbia
Member, Management Team, Land Remediation (Contaminated sites), Ministry of Environment, British Columbia
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Timothy Murray Boston, Mass.
Lieutenant Governor, state of Massachusetts
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Roger W. Gingles Baton Rouge, La.
Brownfields Coordinator for the Louisiana Dept. of Environmental Quality
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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by Staff Report
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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