[CPEO-BIF] "Brownfield focus yields success" in Tallahassee, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield focus yields success

Opinion by Jason S. Lichtstein
Tallahassee Democrat (FL)
October 19, 2012

The momentum is real along Gaines Street.

Gaines Street, the All Saints District and the area around Doak  
Campbell Stadium are alive with new construction projects. The first  
phase of Gaines Street roadway work is complete, helping to create a  
more walkable, close-knit neighborhood, and the next phase is under  
way. Amid the success, significant credit should go to the early  
local Brownfield initiatives that helped to get the ball rolling and  
to create critical mass for redevelopment and new investments in the  
area.

Brownfields are idle, vacant or blighted sites marred by  
contamination concerns. Since the early days of Florida's and the  
federal Brownfield programs, the city of Tallahassee has been on the  
forefront, obtaining more than $2 million in federal Brownfield  
grants and awards since 1997, more than any other city or county in  
the state. (This week, the city and the Tallahassee Community  
Redevelopment Agency are holding a kick-off workshop on opportunities  
under the recently awarded $1 million federal Brownfields Revolving  
Loan Fund Grant.)


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For the entire column, see
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20121022/OPINION05/310220003/Jason- 
S-Lichtstein-Brownfield-focus-yields-success

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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>
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