Sarah Sieloff is the Executive Director of the Center for Creative Land Recycling.  She is also the 2016 ULI SF Chamberlin Young Leader in the Non-Profit/Public Sector, and a member of ULI’s Redevelopment and Reuse Product Council.

CCLR and its partners, Maul Foster Alongi (MFA), the Skamania County and the City of Stevenson, WA, hosted a Vision-to-Action workshop to inspire the future redevelopment on the former Hegewald Veneer Mill Site.  Vision-to-Action is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-funded program that helps communities brainstorm ideas for redevelopment on local brownfield sites. This event was focused on the former Hegewald Veneer Mill located just north of the Rock Cove Assisted Living on SW Rock Creek Drive in Skamania, Washington. Please visit CCLR’s Facebook page for photos of the event.

Land is a finite resource, and the fight to make space for urban housing is a continuous battle. As job and population growth continue to outpace housing production in many US cities, displacement and rising rates of homelessness have caused a public health crisis. In the Bay Area and New York, we examine some companies who are finding ways to mitigate the need for housing.

The Urban Land Institute is an independent global nonprofit with over 40,000 members representing the entire spectrum of real estate development and land use discipline. Since 1947, they have been organizing Advisory Services panels to support local governments address challenging real estate and land use issues facing their communities. Panels bring together the best and brightest from ULI’s diverse membership—developers, planners, financiers, market analysts, economists, architects, designers, and public officials—to provide practical solutions and objective advice not available from any other source.

On October 17, CCLR traveled to Flagstaff to provide a workshop on land reuse and economic development. 

On October 3rd, Center for Creative Land Recycling provided a half-day course focusing on redeveloping environmentally challenged property, with a special focus on transit-oriented development and infill in the Puget Sound region. 

The EPA is offering an exciting program to create walkable, healthy, and economically vibrant neighborhoods though local food systems development. Local Foods, Local Places is the new program that offers technical assistance during a  two day workshop while developing a plan of action for communities who want to develop local food systems.

The Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) is preparing a grant proposal to be submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide technical assistance to tribal communities impacted by brownfields. CCLR seeks to augment team capabilities with contractor expertise.

On September 20th, the Center for Creative Land Recycling, in partnership with U.S. EPA, and Nevada DEP & Northern Nevada Development Authority held a pre-conference workshop focused on supporting economic development through brownfields funds & technical assistance.

On August 2nd, the Center for Creative Land Recycling, in partnership with Tuskegee University and U.S. EPA, held a workshop focused on rural brownfield redevelopment to help drive the establishment of a rural transit system.