[CPEO-BIF] CONNECTICUT: "New brownfields director to organize redevelopment"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New brownfields director to organize redevelopment

BY BRAD KANE
Hartford  Business (CT)
March 24, 2014

For the first time, Connecticut has a director focused on redeveloping all the state's blighted brownfields back into productive use.

New York City transplant Tim Sullivan was recently named director of brownfields, waterfront, and transit-oriented development, a newly created position within the state Department of Economic & Community Development.

Sullivan says he sees plenty of opportunities for Connecticut to remediate old industrial sites into properties for commercial, residential, retail, or open space use. With the state's latest remaking of its brownfields laws, Sullivan said achieving these redevelopments will be easier than ever.

"It is a complicated recipe to do a brownfield redevelopment project," Sullivan said. "The trick is to find the sweet spot where with a little bit of help, you can get that private investment."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/20140324/PRINTEDITION/303219954
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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