CCLR’s 3rd Annual NYS Redevelopment Summit was held on June 13th and 14th, 2018 at the Sage College of Albany in Albany, NY. The program included over 52 expert speakers from the public and private sectors who provided essential information to over 250 Summit participants on  redevelopment trends, funding and innovations needed to accelerate land reuse projects. The Summit demonstrated CCLR’s leadership role in supporting national, state and local programs and policy for brownfield redevelopment and created a forum for information exchange and connections. 

Redevelopment does not happen overnight, ideas evolve and dreams endure. 

CCLR’s Vision-to-Action — V2A — brings together stakeholders to inspire better futures for their neighborhoods, such as Richmond’s 23rd Street, Calle 23, the heart of Richmond’s Latino business district.

Jean Hamerman, CCLR’s Deputy Director sat down with Lance Robbins, CEO of Urban Smart Growth (USG) to discuss how Lance’s approach to business and life is imprinted on USG’s success and how these lessons provide important insights into our work.

During the week of May 7th, 2018, CCLR and its partners EDS, DISUR, and CDM Smith worked with U.S. EPA to organize a series of brownfields redevelopment events in Guaynabo.  Those events included the 4th Cumbre para el Desarrollo de Brownfields en Puerto Rico on May 10th. 

Materials for these events are listed here.

CCLR Director of Programs Ignacio Dayrit joined a delegation led by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) that participated in the 4th Sino-American Land Engineering Cooperation Conference sponsored by the People's Government of Shaanxi province and hosted by the Shaanxi Land Engineering Construction Group (SLECG). Led by David Johnstone, Director of Global Programs at ICMA, Ignacio was joined by Linda Yang of Terracon, George Naslas of Weston & Sampson, Trey Hess of PPM, and Fraser Shilling with UC Davis.

The Oregon Brownfields Conference & Awards Luncheon held on April 29-May 1, 2018 was a combined family reunion and homecoming. Few conferences match the camaraderie shared by those who attend this gathering.

BL’s solar energy development event will take place on the campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in downtown Newark, New Jersey for one robust and exciting day of solar development programming. Two tracks of educational programming in the morning, an engaging group lunch and an afternoon full of networking with on-site technical assistance will make for an illuminating and constructive day.

On March 31st, the 23rd Street neighborhood in Richmond came together at Richmond Union High School to reimagine the possibilities for the 23rd Street corridor, also known as Calle 23. Just a short walk from the Richmond BART and Amtrak Stations, Richmond Civic Center and the Richmond Greenway, Calle 23 is ripe with redevelopment opportunities.  

On March 11, CCLR hosted our second Bike Tour of Bay Area Brownfields. For this tour we focused our attention towards the island of Alameda. Program Assistant Sam Hare Steig led a herd of 24 cyclists to three unique redevelopment sites. The group toured each site and talked with the local developers behind the projects.