[CPEO-BIF] Regional Brownfield Scoping report, Portland Metro area, Oregon

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Metro: Brownfields offer a path to new development
Regional agency hopes report will guide job creation

by Jim Redden
Portland Tribune (OR)
November 8, 2012

South Waterfront is an example of brownfield redevelopment on a large  
scale. Hundreds of acres of contaminated and underutilized land in  
Portland along the Willamette River are being cleaned up and  
converted into residential towers, medical buildings and educational  
facilities.

A recent Metro report suggests that thousands of other acres of  
brownfields in the region could boost the economy and provide needed  
housing if they were cleaned up and redeveloped, too.

The Regional Brownfield Scoping Project estimates there may be as  
many as 2,300 properties in the region that are potentially  
contaminated and either vacant or underutilized. This represents  
about 7 percent of all commercial, mixed use and industrial zoned  
lands within the urban growth boundary administered by Metro.


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For the entire article, see
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/122803-metro--brownfields-offer- 
a-path-to-new-development

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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