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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 educated, advocated, assisted and convened stakeholders with the end goal of revitalizing neighborhoods through land recycling. We also reviewed grants that secured more […]
On February 13th, 2023 EPA will adopt new All Appropriate Inquiries (AAI) standards. AAI is a process done prior to the purchase of property to assess its environmental condition as part of pre-purchase due diligence. By completing an AAI before taking ow...
CCLR’s on-the-ground efforts are an important way that our organization assists in land recycling. However, in the past couple years CCLR’s in-person events, site visits, meetings and presentations were sidelined due to the COVID pandemic. In 2022 we ...
CCLR Senior Planning and Brownfields Consultants Joelle Greenland, AICP and Tamara Cardona-Marek, PhD visited the Pacific Northwest for a series of events, to present at conferences, and to conduct a series of site visits. Their travels took them from the...
The Beginning Most Americans have heard of the Oregon Trail – the more than 2,100 mile early-American wagon thoroughfare that traveled through nine states between Independence, Missouri and Oregon’s Willamette Valley.[1] However, what most people don�...
You know the tune, and it sounds familiar, but it’s a different song. Such is the case with the 40-acre Rome Cable Complex 4 site (Site) in Rome, NY. Situated in the heart of upstate New York, the City of Rome (Rome) is nestled in the Mohawk Valley, whe...
Ignacio Dayrit does not like being the center of attention. “I grew up in the younger half of eight siblings. I only got attention when I was in trouble.” Ignacio demurred. He can’t avoid the attention now that he has been awarded the Phoenix Life...
