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What does a remediated oil site, a reinvented motel, a century-old segregated school, and a century old office building have in common? In Tucson, they’re all part of the same story — a city actively reclaiming its past to build a more equitable a...
New Board Members bring vast redevelopment and environmental law experience to the national nonprofit’s bench CCLR is excited to announce five new Board members and one new Advisory Council member have joined our organization in 2026. These accomplished...
The Center for Creative Land Recycling is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable, community-led and responsible reuse of underutilized and environmentally-impacted properties known as brownfields. In 2025, the CCLR team educa...
Across the country, communities are wrestling with contaminated land. Former factories, railyards, and vacant lots divide neighborhoods and burden local economies. Yet increasingly, these “brownfields” are being reimagined as parks, wetlands, and comm...
EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management has recognized CCLR and its partners with a National Notable Achievement Award for the Caselton Mill Vision to Action plan. In 2024, CCLR and our partners: Lincoln County, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), ICF,�...
This year’s California Land Recycling Conference (CALRC) convened diverse voices in brownfields and beyond to tackle our central question, how does land reuse empower communities? The short answer is that land reuse empowers communities at every step. R...
