[CPEO-BIF] Fwd: NEW Brownfield and Health Tool facilitates health considerations in brownfield redevelopment planning

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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From: Natalie Brown <nbrown@mnbrownfields.org>

Subject: NEW Brownfield and Health Tool facilitates health considerations in brownfield redevelopment planning

Date: June 19, 2017 at 8:37:12 AM PDT

To: lsiegel@cpeo.org

Hello Lenny-

A Minnesota nonprofit, Minnesota Brownfields, just launched a new tool, developed in partnership with Minnesota Department of Health, that I think would be of interest to the Brownfield Listings community. Below is a brief write-up about the tool, including links to access it and learn more about the launch. Would you be able to share this with Brownfield Listings members as appropriate, perhaps in an upcoming issue of your newsletter or on your website? Please let me know your thoughts about sharing this with your members.

 

Thank you!

 

 

New Brownfield and Health Tool Helps Give Blighted Sites a Healthy Second Chance

Revitalizing brownfield sites offers an opportunity for communities to spur economic growth, resolve neighborhood blight, increase community connectivity, restore ecological balance and promote public health. The benefits are tremendous, but often the task of transforming these sites into productive community assets can present challenges, including the complicated process of identifying and prioritizing the redevelopment strategies that will best meet the long-term needs of the environment and community.  Minnesota Brownfields and the Minnesota Department of Health have developed a Brownfield and Health Indicator Tool to help community planners, landscape architects, developers and community leaders overcome this challenge.

The Brownfield and Health Indicator Tool incorporates a series of indicators that address community health factors and aims to streamline project decision-making process by providing a framework for stakeholders to identify and prioritize redevelopment goals. Designed as a self-guided tool by those who influence and work on brownfield projects, the Brownfield Health Indicator Tool’s framework supports existing project decision-making processes. To access the Brownfield Health Indicator Tool, visit Brownfield Health Indicator Tool or Brownfields and Public Health. To learn more about the tool’s launch and current pilot project by the City of Duluth, click here.

​Thanks,

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Natalie Brown | Program Manager

Minnesota Brownfields

Mail: PO Box 16244 | St. Paul, MN 55116

Office:  2801 21st Avenue South | Suite 145 | Minneapolis, MN 55407

Phone: 612.545.6389

www.mnbrownfields.org

 

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