[CPEO-BIF] "BUILDing on brownfields: Federal bill seeks improvements to EPA redevelopment program"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BUILDing on brownfields: Federal bill seeks improvements to EPA  
redevelopment program


By Riordan Frost, Minnesota 2020
Twin Cities Daily Planet
March 31, 2013

New development is always exciting, but seeing an old site brought  
back to life is especially rewarding - not to mention economically  
and environmentally beneficial. It happened with the polluted former  
brewery and railway site that is now the Bruce Vento Nature  
Conservancy, it might happen with the old Ford plant, it happened  
with a luxury apartment building in Uptown that used to be the Acme  
Tag & Label printing plant, and it is under consideration at the  
former potential site for the Vikings stadium.

The one element these sites all share? They are all (or were)  
brownfields, which means that each site had potential for  
redevelopment that was complicated by "actual or suspected  
environmental contamination." There are many success stories of  
brownfield redevelopment in Minnesota, but one reason that these  
stories deserve notice is the difficulty with which their success is  
achieved. Remediating sites with a variety of environmental problems  
is expensive and often serves as a barrier to development. That's why  
the EPA has a brownfields program to identify these sites and provide  
funding for redevelopment.

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For the entire blog, see
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog/riordan-frost/building-brownfields- 
federal-bill-seeks-improvements-epa-redevelopment-program

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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
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