Join us at the next National Brownfields Training Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 5 -7, 2017, with pre-conference workshops on December 4. We invite you to submit your ideas for dynamic educational sessions that encourage conversation and participation from your fellow attendees. A great Brownfields 2017 educational program will motivate brownfields stakeholders to engage, learn, and share their experiences and knowledge of community revitalization challenges and solutions.

This manual is an excellent resource for communities that want to consider climate change as they assess, clean up, or redevelop brownfield sites. It provides guidance on best practices for climate change mitigation, adaption, and resilience at all stages of brownfields work, from planning to redevelopment. In addition, the manual contains case studies and links to additional resources that communities can use as they develop brownfields project plans

This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals from eligible entities, including nonprofit organizations, to deliver Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training programs that recruit, train, and place local, unemployed and under-employed residents with the skills needed to secure full-time employment in the environmental field.

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.