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As the third paper in our three-part series on Wisconsin brownfields, this paper reports the results of a survey on the … objectives of brownfields redevelopment, constraints to the redevelopment, the role of the state’s Department of Natural … find that: 1) respondents value both economic and environmental gains associated with brownfields redevelopment; 2) the …
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reuse of brownfields. Policies that encourage cleanup and re-use of brownfields offer real estate developers reductions in … for regeneration of brownfields. We use conjoint choice experiments—a stated preference approach—to assess the responses …
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State Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs) were established starting in the 1990s to encourage the environmental remediation and redevelopment of contaminated properties. These programs typically offer liability relief, subsidies and other regulatory incentives in exchange for site cleanup. This...
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useful tools for encouraging reuse of abandoned or underutilized urban sites with historic buildings? Answering this question …
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Many communities are concerned about the reuse of potentially contaminated land ("brownfields") and believe that … environmental liability is a hindrance to redevelopment. However, with land price adjustments, liability might not impede the reuse … this variation on industrial land prices and vacancy rates and on reported brownfields in a panel of cities across the …
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This study examines the role that land contamination plays in hindering central city redevelopment. The author tracked all sales and selling prices and the presence of contamination in one industrial area of about 5,580 acres in southwest Baltimore. The results indicate that after the mid-1990s,...
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Are economic incentives and regulatory relief useful tools for encouraging reuse of abandoned or under-utilised urban …
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The EPA has a cornucopia of cleanup and reuse programs ranging from the Superfund Program which addresses sites posing … imminent danger and many of the most hazardous sites nationwide, to the Brownfields Program which addresses lower risk sites … cleanup and reuse is spotty and incomplete and perhaps raises more questions than it answers. Would a comprehensive study of …
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Given the increased focus on reuse activity within EPA and state site cleanup programs, policy makers would benefit … from looking across programs to better understand the extent and nature of reuse; examine site characteristics that … influence reuse; leverage lessons learned; and coordinate reuse activities, data collection, and information management. This …
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