Financing Brownfield Cleanup and Redevelopment
This paper examines a few of the more promising brownfield financing options, including tax incentives, capital attraction incentives, and initiatives to support financing.
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Brownfields Financing Basics
This is a presentation by the Northeast-Midwest Institute that covers federal, state and local financing tools, including a discussion of goals for these initiatives and project examples.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency - Brownfield Tool Assistance
Applications to EPA for Brownfield Tool Assistance can be found at the following link.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency - Brownfield Tool Assistance
Applications to EPA for Brownfield Tool Assistance can be found at the following link.
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Georgia General Assembly
State of Georgia Tax Incentive for Brownfield Property Redevelopment, HB 531
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United States Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Finance Program
This detailed document provides an excellent overview of the tools available for financing brownfield redevelopment
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United States Environmental Protection Agency - Urban and Economic Development Division
Financing Brownfields Redevelopment Projects - A Guide for Developers. This document, produced by the EPA for developers, offers an in-depth guide for financing the redevelopment of brownfield properties.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency - Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment
The Brownfields Money Matters website provides information on various resources and issues faced in financing brownfield redevelopment.
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Brownfield Economic Development Initiative (BEDI)
HUD provides grants to brownfield redevelopment projects. Brownfield Economic Development Initiative (BEDI) funds are used as the stimulus for local governments and private sector interests to commence redevelopment or continue phased redevelopment efforts on brownfield sites where either perceived or actual environmental conditions are known and redevelopment plans exist. HUD emphasizes the use of BEDI and Section 108 Loan Guarantee funds to finance projects and activities that will provide near-term results and demonstrable economic benefits, such as job creation and increases in the local tax base.
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“Financing Small-Scale Urban Redevelopment Projects: A Sourcebook For Borrowers Reusing Environmentally Suspect Sites”
Presents findings from interviews with developers, lenders, environmental engineers and lawyers, environmental agency representatives, staff from economic development organizations and others to provide for better information and guidance in efforts to obtain financial backing.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency - Remediation Technology - Cost Compendium Year 2000
This compendium, developed by EPA in 2000, provides cost estimates for six remediation technologies: (1) bioremediation, (2) thermal desorption, (3) soil vapor extraction (SVE), (4) on-site incineration, (5) groundwater pump-and treat systems, and (6) permeable reactive barriers (PRBs). Although each case will differ, this document offers general guidance in terms of cost and options for remediation.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency - Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment
EPA’s Brownfields Tax Incentive website provides detailed information on the history of the incentives, guidelines and eligibility requirements.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency - Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment
Provides information on "How to Find Whether a Property is Eligible for the Brownfields Tax Incentive."
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Bibb County, GA - Macon's Brownfields Revitalization Project is engaged in the clean-up and remediation of many formerly industrial sites in the city's Downtown Industrial District (DID). This area was once home to railroads, factories and mills; some of its sites are known to be contaminated, and others are believed to be. The city was awarded a $200,000 grant, from the Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields Initiative, to carry out contamination assessment and feasibility studies on five sites in the DID.

Connecticut - The Gilbert & Bennett wire mill, in the town of Redding, Connecticut, closed in 1989. That left a contaminated 55-acre site in the main commercial area of this town of 8,400 residents. Furthermore, by 2002 the facility had accrued unpaid taxes of over $1 million. To improve the area and safeguard public health, the town and a developer partnered. The developer (one with previous brownfield experience) paid the tax lien completely, cleaned up the contamination, and is creating a mixed-use project on the site. The project plan has a diversity of uses, including 416 homes in a various styles, 109,000 square feet of retail, 113,000 square feet of offices, a performing arts center, and a health facility. The development will be highly walkable, and the developer is also building a commuter train station to provide access to Manhattan. 15 of the area's historic industrial buildings will be rehabilitated. The project was one of five recipients of the 2005 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement from the E.P.A.

Indiana - The Indiana Development Finance Authority provides financing for brownfield redevelopment in the forms of site assessment grants, low interest loans, remediation grants and tax credits.

North Carolina - Raleigh, North Carolina, has been involved in brownfield projects since 1999, the year it received its first grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since then many site assessments have been carried out, primarily at locations in or near the city's downtown. In 2001 Raleigh received a Brownfield Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (BCRLF) grant of one million dollars, allowing it to move from site assessment into remediation.

Oregon - Triangle Park, LLC, was created to purchase the former Riedel North Portland Yard next to the Willamette River. (The site is now called Triangle Park.) The company saw the possibility for marine-related activities at this location, but was wary of its environmental contamination. Before buying the property, the company negotiated a Prospective Purchaser Agreement (PPA) with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). A PPA defines and limits a purchaser's liability for the cost of brownfield cleanup. The cleanup itself will be done jointly by the company and the DEQ. The project has also been approved for the federal Brownfields Tax Incentive.

Pennsylvania - Alliance Environmental Systems, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, was looking for a location for its new headquarters when it discovered the availability of a brownfields site that seemed ideal. To assist in the remediation, the company received loan financing from the Industrial Sites Cleanup Fund, a program of the Pennsylvania Department of Community Economic Development. In addition, the company has also been approved for the federal Brownfields Tax Incentive.

Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Contact for tax incentive eligibility: Mr. Darren Meadows Legal Assistant GA Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division Suite 1462 Hazardous Waste Management Branch 205 Butler Street, SE Atlanta , GA 30334 (404) 657-8600 Fax: (404) 657-0307 darren_meadows@mail.dnr.state.ga.us

The Department of Housing and Urban Development
Includes brownfield redevelopment as one of their priority programs in local economic development.
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The US Army Corps of Engineers
The Army Corps of Engineers may be a source of programmatic and financial assistance.
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U.S. Department of Commerce - Economic Development Administration
The Economic Development Administration offers brownfield redevelopment assistance.
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U.S. General Services Administration
The General Services Administration supports a Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The EPA supports revolving loan funds for cleanup of brownfield sites.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The EPA supports workforce training through the Job Training Pilot Program.
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