[CPEO-BIF] "How a Twin Cities [Minnesota] brownfield became centerfield for green sports"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How a Twin Cities brownfield became centerfield for green sports

by Lew Blaustein
GreenBiz
May 28, 2015

Several sports venues justifiably can lay claim to the coveted  
"Greenest Stadium In the U.S." title.

Levi’s Stadium, the LEED Gold-certified home of the San Francisco  
49ers that will host Super Bowl 50 in February (which I profiled here  
when it opened last summer), certainly merits support. TCF Bank  
Stadium in Minneapolis, home of the University of Minnesota Golden  
Gophers football team, also earns kudos for being the first LEED- 
certified college football stadium.

But a soon-to-open stadium across the Mississippi in St. Paul,  
despite its relatively modest minor league baseball pedigree, really  
may be in line to wrest the title away from its bigger brethren.

...

Perhaps most impressive is that the Saints, along with builder and  
real estate manager Ryan Companies, transformed a site that was once  
among the 10 most contaminated brownfield sites - land previously  
used for commercial or industrial purposes that has been contaminated  
with hazardous waste and/or pollution - in the Twin Cities.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-twin-cities-brownfield-became- 
centerfield-green-sports

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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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