2025 California Brownfields Workshops: Sacramento and Fresno
The Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), invite you to the 2025 California Brownfields Workshops this June.
Similar content will be presented in Fresno and Sacramento, so choose the date and location most convenient to you!
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2025 California Brownfields Workshops
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Sacramento: Tuesday, June 3, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | California Endowment Center
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Fresno: Thursday, June 5, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Fresno City Center
The 2025 California Brownfields Workshops will bring agencies together with local brownfields programs (or those thinking of developing one), community organizations, land reuse professionals, Tribes and municipalities to learn about revitalizing and reusing vacant properties. Connect the dots between resources, funding, challenges, and strategies for redevelopment, leveraging EPA, other federal, and state resources.
Topics to be presented will include:
- A morning mobile brownfield tour
- Brownfield Grant Programs and Resources
- Tips on writing a successful EPA grant
- EPA Brownfield Grantee Panel & Case Studies
- Funding Opportunities
- Challenges and Strategies for Redevelopment
Interested in sponsoring one or more of the workshops? Read through the sponsorship menu below and fill out this form. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Bret Carr at [email protected].
2025 California Brownfields Workshops Mobile Tours
At both workshops, participants are invited to tour current and former brownfield sites local to Fresno and Sacramento. We’re sure to find inspiration in these reuse projects!
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Schedule of Events
Check-in, Breakfast & Networking
MOBILE TOUR
Enjoy a boxed breakfast as we hit the road for a tour of Sacramento and West Sacramento brownfield projects. On this tour we’ll see a variety of land reuse projects blank slate sites to end use development:
SESSION I -CA BROWNFIELDS 101
Get the basics of brownfields from EPA, DTSC and CCLR in this morning primer. Learn the terms of the trade, how to identify, select and prioritize sites for reuse as well as available grants and funding sources including: philanthropic, foundations, state and local funding, federal brownfields programs and how to apply.
Lunch and Networking
SESSION II -THE ROADMAP TO REDEVELOPMENT
This session will help you navigate a project to reuse! Learn about due diligence, how to leveraging funding, common challenges and strategies to overcome them. This session will help you with stakeholder and community outreach, how to market brownfields to development partners, and more to get your brownfields to their final destination.
Break
SESSION III -COMMUNITIES OF ENGAGEMENT & BEST PRACTICE Learn from brownfield practitioners who have successfully shepherded a reuse project through the redevelopment process. You will learn about the opportunities and benefits brownfield reuse is providing in California communities, and how communities navigate regulatory, funding, and other challenges.
GROUP ACTIVITY - CASE STUDY WORK
Take all that you have learned and put it into practice during this engaging activity to end the day! You and your team will develop a redevelopment plan for one of the sites visited during the morning brownfield tour. The team with the vision closest do the planned end use for the site will come away a winner!
Check-in, Breakfast & Networking
MOBILE TOUR
Grab some grub and get on the bus! In Fresno the brownfield tour will focus on areas near Chinatown and Chukchansi Stadium. The tour will start at the St Rest and Food to Share Hub.
SESSION I- CA BROWNFIELDS 101
Get the basics of brownfields in this morning primer. Learn the terms of the trade, how to identify, select and prioritize sites for reuse as well as available grants and funding sources including: philanthropic, foundations, state and local funding, federal brownfields programs and how to apply.
Lunch and Networking
SESSION II -THE ROADMAP TO REDEVELOPMENT
This session will help you navigate a project to reuse! Learn about due diligence, how to leveraging funding, common challenges and strategies to overcome them. This session will help you with stakeholder and community outreach, how to market brownfields to development partners, and more to get your brownfields to their final destination.
Break
SESSION III -COMMUNITIES OF ENGAGEMENT & BEST
PRACTICE
Learn from brownfield practitioners who have successfully shepherded a reuse project through the redevelopment process. You will learn about the opportunities and benefits brownfield reuse is providing in California communities, and how communities navigate regulatory, funding, and other challenges.
GROUP ACTIVITY - CASE STUDY WORK
Take all that you have learned and put it into practice during this engaging activity to end the day! You and your team will develop a redevelopment plan for one of the sites visited during the morning brownfield tour. The team with the vision closest do the planned end use for the site will come away a winner!
Speakers
Senior Brownfields Consultant | CCLR
Lead Program Consultant | CCLR
Brownfields Project Manager | U.S. EPA Region 9 Brownfields Speaking at all workshops
Projects Administrator | City of Fresno
Development Project Manager | City of Sacramento
Senior Project Geologist | Langan
Chief Operating Officer |
Somos Group
Vice President |
SCS Engineers
Executive Director |
Fresno Metro Ministry
City Planner | City of Grass Valley
Environmental Remediation Specialist and Rural Brownfields Coordinator | Sierra Institute
Housing Manager | City of Rancho Cordova
Assistant Director of Development | Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency
Brownfields Project Manager | U.S. EPA Region 9
Project Officer | Toxics and Brownfields Section, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Sacramento Workshop Sponsors:
Visionary Sponsors:
- SCS Engineers
- Somos Group
- Langan
Supporter Sponsors:
- Broadbent & Associates, Inc
- Farallon Consulting
- Pace Analytical
- Terracon
Fresno Workshop Sponsors:
Visionary Sponsors:
- SCS Engineers
Supporter Sponsors:
- Pace Analytical
- Terracon
