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Evaluate: Values vs. Risks
By Kelly Novak
Most communities generally recognize that brownfields don’t become
a community asset until cleaned up and redeveloped. Despite liability
and unknown risk concerns, communities are finding that the value of a
finished redevelopment is worth the risk.
The Dreaded Comeback
By Chris Olson
Learn how to reintroduce idled land assets back into the mainstream, including
10 ways to emerge from the fence and hold cocoon and 5 additional measures
for the risk-adverse.
Financial Incentives in Canada
By Luc Picconi
Canada lags at least ten years behind the United States in terms of financial
incentives offered to promote brownfield development. It is only in the
last few years that all levels of government in Canada have begun to address
the issue by developing and offering financial incentives to promote brownfield
development.
A One-Two Punch for Contaminated
Groundwater
New techniques have become available to deal with solvents, such as the
permeable reactive barrier. It is a subterranean barrier that cleans the
contamination passing through it. Its beauty is that the pollutant’s
own chemical properties become its undoing.
Technology and Property Value Chain
By Ken Kastman
Technology can enhance property value by controlling costs and reducing
uncertainty in the redevelopment process in several key ways.
HUD and EDA Programs
By Charlie Bartsch
Many communities have successfully tapped into lesser-known federal programs
to help both public and private parties pursue brownfield projects. Much
of this assistance has come through economic development programs offered
by HUD and the Economic Development Administration (EDA).
What to Expect When You’re
Insuring
By Alan Bressler
Environmental insurance has become widely accepted as a preferred means
of reducing, transferring and allocating environmental risk in brownfield
transactions and
redevelopment projects. However, many participants have unrealistic expectations
about these products.
Government and the Future of
Brownfield Financing
Point by Sven-Eric Kaiser
Counterpoints by Irv Cohen and Dean Jeffery Tegelo
When it comes to financing brownfields, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) and its federal partners have a bit of everything going.
Whether viewed as a financial savior, an unwelcome meddler, or something
in between, there is no doubt that the federal government has been deeply
involved in brownfields and that role will likely continue for the foreseeable
future.
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