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Brownfields are the abandoned or under-utilized warehouses, factories, gas stations, salvage yards, vacant lots, contaminated properties, and other eyesores that plague virtually every community in America. They: - cause blight to neighborhoods,
- inhibit economic development,
- threaten public health and the environment, and
- encourage urban sprawl.
NALGEP's latest effort, the Brownfield Communities Network, is empowering localities to revitalize their communities through the exchange of strategies, tools, and best practices for brownfields cleanup and reuse. One example of a company working to acquire and remediate numerous brownfields sites around the county is P&L Investments, LLC. Founded by leading Brownfields investors and attorneys, P&L is an investor in Brownfields. P&L has owned and managed Brownfields ranging from abandoned gas stations in Texas and California to landfills in Pennsylvania and Ohio. P&L utilizes a network of internationally-respected environmental engineers, consultants and attorneys to identify, acquire, remediate, and market Brownfields. P&L is also on the GSA Schedule for providing, inter alia, asset management services to the federal government. P&L has acquired and remediated numerous sites around the country that have environmental problems. Sites acquired, remediated, and sold and/or leased by P&L Investments and its affiliates have ranged from a 90-acre asbestos brake plant to an 18-acre PCB-contaminated Superfund site. The said 18-acre site is the first Superfund site in the country that was sanctioned by the EPA for conversion to a residential use (instead of commercial use). For more information about P&L, please visit http://www.pandlinvestments.com/default.htm
Kansas City Brownfield Workshop Presentations NADO North Carolina Brownfield Workshop - Tom Warshauer, City of Charlotte, NC Grants Management: Electronic Library With the help of the Grants Management Task Force, NALGEP is working to collect electronic resources to help brownfields practioners through the US EPA Grant Application Process. Here are some electronic resources.
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USTfields Initiative
In coordination with the Northeast-Midwest Institute, NALGEP brings together representatives of the initial 10 USTfields EPA pilots to identify critical barriers and develop strategies to overcome shared obstacles to revitalizing petroleum contaminated properties.
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Community Revitalization Research Initiative
Under this cooperative agreement NALGEP worked to research barriers to revitalization, organized and led an expert Advisory Committee on revitalization, and conducted nine Community Revitalization Roundtables. US EPA awarded this cooperative agreement to NALGEP in August 2002. |
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Brownfield Communities Network
Guided by an Advisory Council of the nation's leading local brownfields leaders and staffed by NALGEP and the Northeast Midwest Institute (NEMW), the Brownfields Communities Network will provide technical assistance and training to local government officials and other key stakeholders. |
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DEQ Fills Up the USTField Toolbox
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is working with Multnomah, Baker, Umatilla, Jackson, and Lane counties to identify prospective sites where UST contamination is impeding local redevelopment efforts. |
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Lancaster County Saves a Community Asset
Mary Gattis-Schell, a Senior Planner with the Economic Development Planning Division of the Lancaster County Planning Commission (LCPC). One of Mary's first projects when she arrived at LCPC in 2000 was to revitalize the 3.5 acre Roberto Clemente Park, in the heart of downtown Lancaster. |
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