The word “brownfield” can send many developers scattering like dandelion fluff on a windy day. For some, it can be easier to run from a contaminated piece of property than to dive in and explore its real potential.
Yet financing tools exist that can greatly decrease—or even eliminate—the costs of a renewal project, and even help [...]
By Aaron Scheff
Spudsville is a thriving city of 250,000 that’s surrounded by smaller towns of varying size, which add another 200,000 people to the total population of the greater Spudsville valley. The city’s Standard Linen site was an eyesore in a neglected portion of downtown Spudsville. Recent downtown revitalization largely bypassed the six-block section of [...]
For years, concerns of contamination at the former American Linen building in downtown Boise stymied any development efforts by the Capital City Development Corporation (CCDC), the downtown’s urban renewal agency. CCDC wanted to transform the former industrial/commercial district into a mixed-use redevelopment that would revitalize that portion of downtown.
With the building sitting empty, CCDC reached [...]
Zoned heavy industrial, the former Chiloquin Forest Products Mill sits on 28 acres in a premier location in a small Oregon town. In fact, the Klamath County government, which foreclosed on the land in 1998, probably saw it as an opportunity to lure new business to town, says Chuck Wells, a member of the Central [...]
March 2: Law Seminar International in Anchorage: More information at www.lawseminars.com.
May 3-4: Restoring Greenspace: Ecological reuse of contaminated properties in EPA Region 10, Seattle. More information at www.wildlifehc.org/events/restoringgreenspace.cfm.
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