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Imagine a house. Now, look beyond its four walls and consider all the component parts required to make it stand up. Someone leveled the ground, built a foundation tailored to the local environment, drew up plans and hauled in all the necessary materials.�...
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 educa...
EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management has recognized CCLR and its partners with a National Notable Achievement Award for the Caselton Mill Vision to Action plan. In 2024, CCLR and our partners: Lincoln County, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), ICF,�...
Many who work in niche fields like brownfield reuse will tell you the work can be lonely. “Brownfield practitioners can be very isolated in their job, sometimes you are the only one doing what you do at your organization,” says CCLR Senior Planning Co...
Smithers West Virginia is a scenic small city of 950 residents embraced between a bend in the Kanawha River and the Appalachian Mountains. Like many towns in the region, Smithers began as a coal camp for mining employees and once hosted coal processing fa...
The Equitable Community Revitalization Grant (ECRG) program, administered by California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), has been instrumental in transforming Bay Area brownfield sites into assets that promote economic growth and pro...
