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  • 18 Jan 2021 5:13 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Good example of local government integrating brownfields, housing and economic revitalization.

    https://salisburync.gov/Government/Community-Planning-Services/Community-Plans/Brownfields-Program

    Posted January 18, 2021

  • 11 Jan 2021 4:32 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    By Cody Shepard, Brockton Enterprise (MA)

    The city has received a $250,000 state grant to remove toxic materials from the vacant downtown Corcoran Supply Company property, which officials say is the first step toward redeveloping the property into downtown housing.

    The Corcoran Supply Company is a three-story, 65,000-square-foot building located on 1.2 acres of downtown property at 308 Montello St.

    The property is considered a brownfield and the grand funds will be used to assess and remediate issues related to fuel storage tanks, contaminated soil, asbestos and lead paint, which have all made the site unfit for use.

    "Removing these pollutants will clear the way for the property to be developed into 62 new units of workforce and affordable housing for the city," Mayor Robert Sullivan's office said in a statement.

    For the entire article, see

    https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/environment/2021/01/05/brockton-corcoran-supply-company-building-downtown-property-brownfield-cleanup-grant-housing/4125843001/

    Posted January 11, 2021

  • 04 Jan 2021 10:22 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    by Valley Breeze (RI)

    The city recently received $484,400 in brownfields remediation grants for cleanup at three polluted sites around the city, including two sites proposed for reuse as solar farms.

    The largest grant was $292,800 for the redevelopment of the former Seville Dye property on First Avenue. The funds will be used to install a bioventing remedial system on the city-owned site to address petroleum-impacted soils. The city has proposed a 1.5-megawatt solar array for the site.

    Another grant of $100,000 was awarded for site preparation at 92–176 Sunnyside Ave, two adjacent former industrial parcels the city has also proposed for reuse as a solar farm.

    For the entire article, see

    https://www.valleybreeze.com/2020-12-22/woonsocket-north-smithfield/city-wins-brownfields-grants-solar-farm-sites#.X-esBC1h1p8

    Posted January 4, 2021

  • 21 Dec 2020 3:18 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Waste Today promotes the benefits of brownfield redevelopment projects.

    Converting hazardous sites into flourishing properties comes with a long list of unknowns.

    On top of the potential risks, conversion can involve years of hard work, financial challenges and even legal constraints that hinder making the vision a reality.

    However, Mark Thimke and Bruce Keyes, attorneys at Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner LLP who specialize in brownfield redevelopment, say numerous laws have changed in the past decade to create more resources and further simplify the process of breathing new life into brownfields—properties that are difficult to redevelop or reuse due to the presence of hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants.

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    Posted December 21, 2020

  • 15 Dec 2020 3:40 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Detailed economic analysis for the University of Chicago matches high resolution housing data and remediation benefits to conclude positive economic results.

    Kevin HaningerLala Ma, and Christopher Timmins

    Abstract

    The US Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Program awards grants to redevelop contaminated lands known as brownfields. This paper estimates cleanup benefits by combining administrative records for a nationally representative sample of brownfields with high-resolution, high-frequency housing data. With cleanup, we find that property values increase by an average of 5.0% to 11.5%. For a welfare interpretation that does not rely on the intertemporal stability of the hedonic price function, a double-difference matching estimator finds even larger effects of up to 15.2%. Our various specifications lead to the consistent conclusion that Brownfields Program cleanups yield positive, statistically significant, but highly localized effects on housing prices.

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    Posted December 15, 2020

  • 23 Nov 2020 12:43 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The Trust for Public Land makes the case for re-use as public spaces and surrounding economics will respond.

    By Peter Harnik and Ryan Donahue

    Back in 1975, the rusted pipes and immense corroded tanks of Seattle’s Gas Works Park seemed bizarre and incongruous against its verdant lawns. If old factory brownfields were repellent, and green parks were alluring, how could the two ever mate? But the imagina- tive flash by landscape architect Richard Haag broke that mold, and the reuse of that polluted property gave rise to an icon.

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    Posted November 23, 2020

  • 16 Nov 2020 3:54 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A critique of the Brownfields concept from the Lincoln Institute.

    Nancey Green Leigh

    Because many brownfield sites are located in areas with depressed property values, the cost of remediation and redevelopment can be greater than the expected resale value. These sites, referred to here as low-to-no market value brownfields, are rarely addressed under current policies and programs. Rather, the current practice of many brownfield redevelopment projects is to select only the most marketable sites for remediation and redevelopment, essentially perpetuating the age-old "creaming" process. Private and public developers' avoidance of the lowest market value parcels typically excludes disadvantaged neighborhoods from programs aimed at redeveloping brownfields and creates the potential for widening existing inequalities between better-off and worse-off neighborhoods.

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    Posted November 16, 2020

  • 26 Oct 2020 5:29 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Lawrence, MA kicks off redevelopment of 19th century paper mill.

    by Allison Corneau

    Six years after fire ripped through the Merrimac Paper Company site, plans are underway to redevelop the 19th-century paper mill on the south bank of the Merrimack River.

    City officials and local environmental experts held a virtual public meeting over Zoom last week to outline the first of many steps necessary to redevelop the site before overhauling the property that once employed as many as 275 people. The former paper company on South Canal Street sits on three lots totaling 4.75 acres, according to a study prepared by Credere Associates, the firm hired by the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission to analyze Brownfields cleanup alternatives.

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    Posted October 26, 2020

  • 26 Oct 2020 5:27 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Consistent activity and opportunity for brownfields redevelopment in southeastern Pennsylvania.

    by Brandon Brown, WFMJ

    EPA representatives and city leaders toured various blighted properties to see circumstances on the ground and to provide New Castle with EPA assessment assistance and expertise on redevelopment.

    The US Environmental Protection Agency joined federal partners to meet with New Castle and Lawrence County Economic Development leadership and community leaders to discuss how EPA can assist the city in the redevelopment of former Brownfields and sites in Opportunity Zones that had become tarnished from past industrial activity.

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    Posted October 26, 2020

  • 19 Oct 2020 1:25 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Redeveloping former industrial site brownfield in Ansonia CT has support of US Senators and will be a major step in community revitalization.  

    Mayor David Cassetti and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal stood on the concrete bridge leading to the former Ansonia Copper and Brass site and looked at the sprawling 60-acre complex of vacant, rusted metal hulks that once churned out products 24/7.

    “Once we get these buildings down, we’ll have a blank canvas,” Cassetti told the senator. “A developer can paint whatever picture he wants and submit it to the city for approval.”

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    October 19, 2020


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