By Hannah Buehler, WKBW TV-7 News (Buffalo, NY)

For the past nine years, the future of the Westwood Country Club property has been in question.

Neighbors and passers by have seen “no trespassing” signs and some reading “contaminated brownfield” whenever near Westwood Country Club.

“For the past nine years, the future of Westwood has been in question,” said Amherst Town Supervisor Brian Kulpa.

Now, finally a plan. A trade off between the Town of Amherst and Mensch Capital, which owns the 170 acres of green space.

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For the entire story, see

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/town-of-amherst-to-take-over-westwood-country-club

Rome Sentinel (NY)

Although the construction season might just be starting to heat up, Cold Point Corporation’s new 50,000 square-foot $5.1 million manufacturing facility in west Rome has just been completed, according to an announcement Thursday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Cold Point specializes in the design and manufacture of water source heat pumps, packaged terminal air conditioners, condensing units, as well as packaged heat pumps and air conditioners for direct replacement, renovation, and new construction applications.

The completion of the facility marks a milestone for the signature project from Rome’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative plan and a strategic site identified in the Erie Boulevard Brownfield Opportunity Area, which, officials said, will help to attract talent and a 21st century workforce to downtown Rome by establishing an advanced manufacturing facility with more than 50 employees within a five-minute walk to the downtown core. 

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The new $5.1 million facility is located at the northwest corner of Henry and South Jay streets and included construction of a 50,000 square-foot advanced manufacturing facility on the former Rome Cable Complex 3 brownfield site.

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For the entire article, see

https://romesentinel.com/stories/51m-cold-point-facility-completed-at-west-rome-site,112210?

Interesting community participation in redevelopment as part of larger plans.

A few years back, Orem residents were asked to share with the city what they envision Orem looking like in the future.

The ongoing project name used by the city’s long-term planners is Imagine Orem. In 2019, Imagine Orem added the Geneva Road Plan, which included cleaning up blighted land that may have remains of hazardous materials from the United States Steel Geneva Plant.

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Posted March 29, 2021

NJ Tax incentives total ~$14B.

Michael Goodman, Adam Young - Fox Rothschild LLP

New Jersey businesses now have access to about $14 billion in tax incentives designed to encourage companies to create and maintain jobs, complete development and redevelopment projects, rehabilitate qualified New Jersey historic properties, and establish and retain new supermarkets and grocery stores in food desert communities.

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Posted March 22, 2021

By Jennifer Dericks, Tap Into Sparta (NJ)

The Sparta Township Council passed a resolution referring the site of the former township dump to the Planning Board for evaluation as a potential “Brownfield Area in Need of Redevelopment.”

According to engineer Stan Puszcz of CP Engineering, the 79.11 acre township owned site on Price’s Lane operated as the municipal landfill from 1967 to 1985. 

He said, “The purpose of the resolution is to address the landfill that is 80% closed and the township wants to close it fully.”

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For the entire article, see

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/sparta/sections/government/articles/sparta-township-council-seeks-brownfield-designation-to-complete-landfill-closure

Posted March 17, 2021

Mission Hill Gazette (MA)

The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) announced that MassDevelopment has awarded the agency a $250,000 Brownfields Redevelopment grant to provide environmental remediation at P3 in Roxbury – just across the street from Boston Police Headquarters on the Mission Hill border.

The environmental remediation completed under the grant will be a key step toward making the redevelopment of the site more feasible so that it can meet the goals identified by the community in PLAN: Nubian Square. 

“The development of P3 is long overdue to provide residents of Roxbury and the City of Boston with good jobs, affordable housing, and space for arts and culture,” said BPDA Director Brian Golden. “Moving forward with the redevelopment of this site 2021 will allow us to deliver on the community’s priorities for the vacant parcel.”

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For the entire article, see

http://missionhillgazette.com/2021/03/05/vacant-p3-building-site-to-be-cleaned-up-with-brownfields-grant/

Brownfield redevelopents were key part of 2020 NY State economic redevelopment.

State cleanup program continues to promote comprehensive cleanups, economic redevelopment in communities

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos announced another year of successful environmental cleanups as part of the state’s brownfield cleanup program (BCP). In 2020 alone, a total of 48 certificates of completion were issued and 94 new sites were accepted to the BCP, helping to protect public health and the environment across New York while, the DEC said, bolstering local economies through redevelopment.

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Posted March 8, 2021

Brownfields funding is active in Michigan.

Jackson County has been awarded $300,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help brownfield sites that have potential to be redeveloped.

Brownfields are plots of land which are either unusable or thought to be unusable in their current state. They have or may have a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant that could prevent development. Under Michigan law, brownfields can also include properties that are blighted, functionally obsolete or owned by the Land Bank Authority.

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Posted March 3, 2021

It's been a year since NY State designated 721-acres as a new Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) in Brooklyn’s Industrial Business Zone (IBZ) which includes parts of Greenpoint, East Williamsburg and Bushwick.

On December 17th of 2019, the New York Department of State designated a 721-acre area in North Brooklyn’s Industrial Business Zone (IBZ) which stretches from eastern Greenpoint into parts of East Williamsburg and Bushwick as a new Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA).

The BOA program aims to revitalize communities with a neighborhood-wide approach and encourage remediation and redevelopment of contaminated sites into productive and job creating properties by means of (1) tax incentives administered through the State’s Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) and (2) financial grants to local organizations and not-for-profits to work to align these new developments with the local communities visions and priorities.

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Posted February 25, 2021

Dominique Cantelme sees development opportunities all over New England.

The New England region—consisting of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont—in the northeast corner of the USA, offers immense diversity. Each state has its own history and culture with scenic beauty, ranging from rivers and lakes, towering forests, mountains, farmland and countryside to rocky coastlines and sandy beaches.

New England is bounded to the north by Canada, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by Long Island Sound and to the west by New York state. A center of industrial manufacturing and a supplier of natural resource products, including granite and lobster, about half of the region’s exports consist of industrial and commercial machinery, such as computers and electrical equipment.

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Posted February 15, 2021