[CPEO-BIF] Minnesota Brightfields

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

On hard-to-use brownfields, property owners see a new option shining down on them
Solar arrays can make productive use of land where buildings aren't allowed. 

By Don Jacobson 
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
August 17, 2017 

Brownfields come in all shapes and sizes, from a few blocks to many acres, and all locations, from inner cities through suburbia and into rural areas.

They get their name because they have environmental contamination. And their owners, in some cases public officials, would like to overcome that obstacle to return them to some kind of productive use.

Sometimes, such as with the site of the former Ford Motor Co. assembly plant in St. Paul, the contamination is manageable enough to remove safely and allow for a new life as tax-generating, privately redeveloped properties.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/on-hard-to-use-brownfields-property-owners-see-a-new-option-shining-down-on-them/440949493/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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