With the recycling of contaminated lands now an acknowledged central strategy for reuse of urban lands, the expectations regarding the aesthetic outcome and functional output of brownfield projects are increasing dramatically. Developers, local governments, community stakeholders, and environmental justice advocates all are demanding more from brownfields than a modest measure of cleanup and the status quo in terms of reuse. Now all stakeholders are looking for cleanup approaches that maximize environmental protection while minimizing the associated carbon footprint. On the reuse side, innovative and cutting-edge green design methodologies to deconstruction, demolition, remediation, and construction are being explored and implemented by both the private sector and the public sector. There also is a push to leverage the environmental restoration and economic revitalization benefits typically associated with brownfields by incorporating renewable energy elements. In many cases, the renewable energy component of the project drives project design and feasibility.
This discussion will present a comprehensive and sophisticated survey of these trends with an emphasis on planning and design and how such planning and design activities impact access to capital, financing, liability management, deal structure, and local government and community stakeholder acceptance. Bloomberg BNA's webinar is designed to help you:
Michael Goldstein, Jennifer Hernandez, and Lawrence P. Schnapf