[CPEO-BIF] ReVenture "Eco-Park," Charlotte, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From brownfield to eco-park at ReVenture

by John Macaulay
Greener Ideal
January 13, 2013

If all goes to plan, the city of Charlotte, NC will one day be home  
to an ambitious environmental initiative called ReVenture Park.

The project could also become a model for innovative redevelopment of  
industrial brownfields.

The ReVenture Park plan calls for a large renewable energy complex at  
a 700 acre site along the Catawba River.  Facilities for waste-to- 
energy, wastewater treatment, solar energy and R&D will rise from the  
ruins of an old textile dye factory - half a million square feet of  
industrial space.

The initiative will repurpose extensive infrastructure already in  
place, including railway tracks, multiple electricity substations and  
transmission lines, and a 360 million gallon containment pond. A  
portion of the ReVenture Park property is reserved for natural  
wildlife habitats.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.greenerideal.com/alternative-energy/0113-from-brownfield- 
to-eco-park-at-reventure/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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