[CPEO-BIF] York, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Building York summit addresses redevelopment, finding York's identity

By EMILY OPILO
York Daily Record (PA)
February 11, 2011
	

York, PA - Before York can attract new residents and development, city 
officials must decide what identity York should have.

That's according to Bill Fontana, executive director of the Pennsylvania 
Downtown Center. Fontana and several other experts in downtown 
revitalization shared similar advice with a sold-out crowd Thursday 
during the Building York summit.

...

In aging urban centers such as York, defunct industrial sites or 
brownfields are often a neglected reminder of better times come and 
gone, but they are actually among the city's most valuable land, said 
Denise Brinley of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Brinley, who has worked to rehabilitate former industrial sites across 
the state, including York's Northwest Triangle, spoke to the 
participants in Thursday's Building York summit about the benefits of 
brownfields. Despite the sites' reputation, they are often poised to 
help with economic revitalization, she said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.ydr.com/politics/ci_17349379

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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