2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 09:14:52 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "BUILDing on brownfields: Federal bill seeks improvements to EPA redevelopment program"
 
BUILDing on brownfields: Federal bill seeks improvements to EPA redevelopment program


By Riordan Frost, Minnesota 2020
Twin Cities Daily Planet
March 31, 2013

New development is always exciting, but seeing an old site brought back to life is especially rewarding - not to mention economically and environmentally beneficial. It happened with the polluted former brewery and railway site that is now the Bruce Vento Nature Conservancy, it might happen with the old Ford plant, it happened with a luxury apartment building in Uptown that used to be the Acme Tag & Label printing plant, and it is under consideration at the former potential site for the Vikings stadium.

The one element these sites all share? They are all (or were) brownfields, which means that each site had potential for redevelopment that was complicated by "actual or suspected environmental contamination." There are many success stories of brownfield redevelopment in Minnesota, but one reason that these stories deserve notice is the difficulty with which their success is achieved. Remediating sites with a variety of environmental problems is expensive and often serves as a barrier to development. That's why the EPA has a brownfields program to identify these sites and provide funding for redevelopment.

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For the entire blog, see
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog/riordan-frost/building-brownfields- federal-bill-seeks-improvements-epa-redevelopment-program

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