Impact
Revitalization Through Land Reuse: 2021-2022 Impact Report
At the Center for Creative Land Recycling, we believe transformation happens at the community level. Our programs support communities with the greatest need for and the least access to the specialized knowledge and tools needed to clean up and repurpose properties. Often, these are low-income neighborhoods, rural areas, and communities of color. The challenges of the 2020’s have been great, but so has the response. CCLR is proud to be a part of the solution to: environmental injustice, inequity, climate change, housing affordability, and improving the health of communities through our work in land recycling. In 2021-2022, CCLR grew its staff and impact to address these challenges – providing assistance to more communities than ever.
CCLR turns 25 in 2023. While we continue to look forward, we took time to look back at two years of exciting changes at our organization with the creation of Revitalization Through Land Reuse: CCLR’s 2021-2022 Impact Report. The report shares many of our accomplishments, as well as our goals and priorities for the future.
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Land recycling...
Increases property values and stabilizes the local tax base.
Improves public health and environmental quality.
Provides land for important community assets including affordable housing, commercial space for small businesses, and health infrastructure.
Prevents sprawl, preserves open space, and protects natural resources.
Reduces carbon footprints and presents opportunities to prepare for climate change.
Helps ease social and racial injustice, as vacant properties disproportionately affect low-income and communities of color.
2021-2022 Impact
Partner Organizations
DTSC is rolling out its brand-new Equitable Community Revitalization Grant (ECRG) program, with up to $250 million in grants to assess and cleanup properties in environmental justice communities. CCLR can help you apply for funding.
We are collaborating with Groundwork U.S.A. to provide resources and events around the environmental justice impacts of brownfields and best practices for equitable development.
CCLR Members firmly believe that all blighted, abandoned, and underutilized properties have a future as community assets. They provide support which is integral to the impact we have for communities.
Leadership
David Harnish is the board chair of CCLR and the owner of Pacific Consulting, LLC. He specializes in environmental compliance and due diligence, including addressing remediation issues to support redevelopment. David has led environmental and real estate projects with government agencies and executives for over 25 years, often in the context of transactions and developments. His work has involved collaboration with leaders across business sectors, including energy, technology, transportation, healthcare, banking, manufacturing, chemical, and pharmaceuticals. David has appreciated for many years the leadership role that CCLR plays in training public and private sector.
