[CPEO-BIF] "New brownfield map pinpoints opportunities" in Portland, Oregon

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New brownfield map pinpoints opportunities
Statewide talks focus on redevelopment of once-tainted sites

by Jennifer Anderson
Portland Tribune
August  28, 2014


Is that vacant site across the street an old gas station or dry  
cleaner, by any chance?

Now there's a way to find out.

The city's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability has just updated its  
inventory maps of every brownfield site in the city - all 910 acres  
of those that had been used for commercial or industrial use dating  
back to the 1930s.

Prior to this, there was no such comprehensive guide for the public  
to access, says Tyler Bump, economic planner for the planning bureau.

Anyone can now pin-point these sites, putting an up-close-and- 
personal face on something that exists in every neighborhood and  
business district in the city.

In all, the city's inventory of brownfields is 910 acres. And city  
officials have an ambitious goal of redeveloping 60 percent of that  
land in the next 25 years.


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For the entire article, see
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/231598-93905-new-brownfield-map- 
pinpoints-opportunities

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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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