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The results are in! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a monumental 193 grant awards totaling over $270 million in funding for the Brownfield Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup (MARC) grant programs. These grants represent a massive step forward for communities looking to transform previously used properties into vibrant, sustainable community assets. A Huge […]
“Reuse, Refuel, and Revitalize – Sustainable Infill Redevelopment in Emeryville”, California, was a mobile workshop as part of the New Partners for Smart Growth conference...
Land use is definitely one primary variable that impacts sustainability, and given that Earth is now an urban planet with a rapidly changing climate, international exchange focused on sustainable urbanism has never been more critical...
After Hurricane Harvey, Paul Krugman asked, “Why can’t we get cities right?” Perhaps it’s because when we imagine a sustainable city, we are imagining something none of us has ever experienced, as Azby Brown notes in his 2009 book Just Enough: ...
In the blog post that follows, we’re highlighting one of CCLR’s sponsors. I remember taking yard waste to the Santa Clara landfill as a teenager, something you would obviously compost today…landfill redevelopment is the ultimate form of land rec...
Seventeen years in the making, the Miraflores Senior affordable housing project celebrated its groundbreaking on May 15th, 2017. Miraflores Senior is being developed by non-profit developer Eden Housing in partnership with the Richmond-based Commun...
In CCLR’s 20 years of working in brownfield redevelopment, we’ve found that land recycling means more than remediation or urban green space creation. Land is a finite resource, and the fight to make space for urban housing is a continuous battle. ...