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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 […]
The City of Emeryville, California is showing the value of patience and persistence in the process of brownfield redevelopment, reaping its latest reward in the form of a long-awaited piece of bike and pedestrian infrastructure, the South Bayfront Bridge...
While brownfields lie idle, they have the potential to negatively impact public health by polluting local air and groundwater supplies, which burdens local neighborhoods with health challenges...
After receiving an EPA Brownfields Multipurpose grant in the spring of 2020, the first step for the City of Ponderay was to perform a community engagement process called Vision-to-Action (V2A). However, outreach during the COVID-19 crisis was a challenge...
To those that have never prepared an EPA Brownfields MARC grant application, it can be daunting. CCLR works to transform pain into gain - free of charge. Continue reading for a review of this grant round and tips and tricks for next year...
Due to the concerns around historical site contamination, redevelopment professionals may consider environmental insurance to help mitigate operational exposure while moving forward on a project...
The FY21 Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup Grant Guidelines are now available on the OBLR MARC Grant Application Resources webpage along with other General Program Resources. The application submission deadline is October 28, 2020...
