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[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Process of Turning a Brownfield Into a Green Hotel

OTO’s Director of Development Bruce Collins gave Hotel News Now the rundown on what it was like to transform a brownfield, or a contaminated piece of land, into a “green” Residence Inn in Gainesville, Florida.

By Danielle Hess
Hotel News Now
April 21, 2017

Developing a hotel is a complicated process all in its own, but some development companies have taken it a step further by building hotels on Environmental Protection Agency-certified brownfields, which are pieces of land that have contaminated soils.

According to the EPA’s website, some brownfield projects can receive grant funding, such as assessment grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants and area-wide planning grants from the EPA. 

Over the years, several hotels have been built through brownfield cleanup projects, and some have received funding at the state and local level. These projects include: The Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which received a grant from the Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund; A Comfort Inn in Bay City, Michigan, which was granted $742,350 in local and school tax capture for the development of the hotel, approved by the Bay City Brownfield Redevelopment Authority; and The Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was the first cleanup site in a brownfields program under the Oklahoma Corporations Commission.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.costar.com/article/973173256/the-process-of-turning-a-brownfield-into-a-green-hotel

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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