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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 […]
In 1956, the first shopping mall opened in Southdale, Minnesota, promising community, commerce, and a palette of native California landscape. The idea spread like wildfire. By 1990, thousands of indoor shopping centers had sprouted up across the U.S....
Too many Americans lack access to healthy food, and it is notoriously difficult to make grocery stores pencil in the neighborhoods that need them most. That’s why we at CCLR care so much about spreading the word about new models and best practices...
The US Environmental Protection Agency plans to release “Requests for APPLICATIONS” (RFA) for brownfield assessment, cleanup and revolving loan fund grants in a few weeks. The intent is to have the grant application season completed before the Na...
El Centro para el Reciclaje Creativo de Tierras unió fuerzas con la organización sin fines de lucro Mujeres de la Tierra de Los Ángeles para organizar un taller nocturno para educar y facilitar la discusión sobre la reutilización de la tierra...
The Center for Creative Land Recycling joined forces with Los Angeles non-profit Mujeres de la Tierra to host an evening workshop to provide education and facilitate discussion surrounding land reuse and the LA River Revitalization...
The Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) traveled to the City of West Sacramento on July 23rd and 24th, 2019 to film our newest video project. This micro-documentary will feature projects in the City of West Sacramento along with three more speakers...
