[CPEO-BIF] Report from the March, 2007 Consultation on Brownfields Subsidies

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report from the Consultation on Brownfields Subsidies
Lenny Siegel and Peter Meyer
May 31, 2007

On March 14, 2007 twenty-five people from diverse constituencies met in 
Washington, DC for the first Consultation on Brownfields Subsidies. The 
overall question facing the participants was, "How can we generate the 
best possible public returns to provision of subsidies for investments 
in brownfield redevelopment?"

Participants in the Consultation, hosted by the Urban Land Institute, 
heard presentations from local government officials from Louisville, 
Kentucky and Indianapolis, Indiana. Both described their efforts to 
target development to blighted geographic areas within their 
jurisdictions. Then an official from brownfield-redeveloper Cherokee 
Denver and a community organizer described the planned Gates Rubber site 
development, just south of downtown Denver.

To download our report on the meeting, go to 
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/Subsidies.pdf. No consensus was pursued, just 
an exchange of experience and informed opinion. The organizers offer a 
selective summary of some of the diverse ideas discussed. These ideas 
and the first exchange will be used by the organizers to pursue funding 
for a broader, recurring forum that will develop common ground across 
the various stakeholder groups engaged in brownfields activity on the 
subsidies issue.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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