brownfields

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Defenders is hopeful that the new directive will address environmental concerns, setting up a balanced process that protects pristine lands and encourages projects to be pursued on already degraded lands, such as brownfields, abandoned agricultural lands or mining sites.

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  • Other scenarios might come to the fore (infill, brownfields, TOD's), shifting business as usual to something else entirely. —  A Daily Dose of Architecture
  • The MMAC is pushing a detailed, ambitious agenda that calls for: grants to subsidize re-tooling of shuttered plants, funding for cleanup of industrial "brownfields," targeted assistance for unemployed auto workers, infrastructure improvements to make blighted sites more attractive, and strict timelines that require automakers or suppliers to put their idle factories back on the market quickly.
  • Search the Tulsa World database of Oklahoma brownfields, which are an urban, abandoned or underused contaminated properties.
  • The initiative supports and helps to finance the restoration of polluted "brownfields" and underused sites in the Port District - land within a —  Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector
  • The federal loan program favors "brownfields," sites on which factories or plants closed years ago and need to be rehabilitated. —  San Jose Business News - Local San Jose News | The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
 

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