CCLR Webinars

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Puerto Rico ha utilizado con éxito el programa TBA de la EPA para evaluar terrenos y propiedades abandonadas en toda la isla. En este seminario online, revisaremos los beneficios del programa y le mostraremos cómo solicitar la asistencia con éxito y avanzar en el desarrollo de su brownfield. El programa de TBA ayuda a las organizaciones sin fines de lucro a evaluar y determinar las inversiones necesarias para el desarrollo de esos sitios contaminados y/o abandonados que entorpecen la economía local. Como resultado de la evaluación, el TBA minimiza la incertidumbre  acerca de la contaminación real en estos lugares que no han podido ser desarrollados. Si su comunidad ha identificado uno o más lugares que puedan ser brownfields y beneficiarse de este proceso del TBA, regístrese a continuación.

Oradores:
Brendan Macdonald, CDM Smith
Sonia Cosme, EDS Puerto Rico 

Watch a recording of the webinar here

CSU Fresno and CCLR have joined together to highlight how you can use funds from the State and Federal brownfields program to help support redevelopment in the Central Valley.  From solar power development to housing initiatives, blighted and vacant sites can become an asset to communities who are looking to redevelop. 

Speakers:
Ismael Herrera | CSU Fresno
Drew Wilson | City of Fresno, CA
Elise Hunter | GRID Alternatives
Tom Esqueda | GRID Alternatives
Tom Collishaw | Self-Help Enterprises
Ignacio Dayrit | Center for Creative Land Recycling

*This webinar is tailored for stakeholders of the California Central Valley*

Watch a recording of the webinar here.

There are numerous and diverse types of financing tools and incentives available to communities for tackling the challenges of financing brownfields redevelopment. From tax-exempt bonds to district-based financing to revolving loan funds, the financing for brownfields redevelopment is often layered with multiple financing tools to produce the final project capital stack. With the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, communities now have a new federal incentive in their toolbox: Opportunity Zones. Through a special partnership with KSU TAB, CCLR, and CDFA, webcast panelists will explore how communities are preparing themselves for Opportunity Zone investments and with the release of new proposed regulations, how this emerging industry is beginning to mold its first deals. Speakers will also examine how communities across the U.S. are integrating these new strategies with current and future redevelopment plans, with a specific focus on brownfields sites.

Speakers:
Andy Seth, Sustainable Strategies DC
Tim Fisher, Manager, Government Affairs, Council of Development Finance Agencies 
Jesse Silverstein, Director, Real Estate Economics, Development Research Partners 
Brandon Daigle, AIA, Vice-Chairman, Casper Downtown Development Authority

Please view a recording of the webinar here.

Join National TAB for a webinar featuring strategies to make every community healthy, wealthy and wise. 
Improving environmental and human health outcomes in communities across the country is challenging under any circumstances. In the early part of the 21st Century this is particularly true given the economic, political, and social changes occurring. EPA’s Office of Community Revitalization has developed strategies and programs that assist communities’ efforts to take stock of their assets, identify visions for growth that supports a better environment and healthy living. Through this webinar you’ll hear how EPA collaborates with communities to grow their economies and improve the environment.

Speakers:
Stephanie Bertaina, Senior Policy Analyst, EPA Office of Community Revitalization
Melissa Kramer, Ph.D., Senior Environmental Protection Specialist, EPA Office of Community Revitalization
Chitra Kumar, Director, Federal and State Division, EPA Office of Community Revitalization

Please view a recording of the webinar here.  

Gentrification and displacement are critical topics for cities and neighborhoods, and for redevelopment, as well.  CCLR is pleased to welcome Richard Rothstein, author of the 2017 book The Color of Law.  Richard will frame the history of segregation in the United States, and help us understand how racial segregation shapes redevelopment decisions today. 

This is the first in a series of webinars dedicated to equity, displacement and redevelopment, as we explore how these issues have impacted communities around the country, and what different local jurisdictions are doing to mitigate the risk of displacement as a result of land recycling.  

Note: It is highly recommended that you read the Color of Law prior to this webinar.  The Color of Law is available at local libraries and from book sellers. 

Speakers:
Richard Rothstein, Economic Policy Institute

Sarah Sieloff, Center for Creative Land Recycling 

Please view a recording of the webinar here.

Why stop with one brownfield site when you can redevelop several?  Areawide planning is a strategy that communities across the country have successfully used to address multiple brownfields concurrently -- and not always in the context of an EPA Brownfields Areawide Planning Grant. In this webinar, learn how areawide planning can support your redevelopment goals: see how each community navigated the planning process, engaged residents and other stakeholders, and utilized creative approaches to funding and interim uses to turn local eyesores into assets.  

Speakers:
Drew Wilson, City of Fresno
Katie-Rose Imbriano, BRS Inc.
Kate O'Brien, Catalyst Collaboratives LLC

Please view a recording of the webinar here. 

Conflict is part of human existence, and there’s no denying that it can be unpleasant, but with tools and perspective from professional facilitators, there’s no reason to be afraid.  We have to work through conflict to get to a better outcome, whether that’s a vision for a site or area, an agreement about remediation plans, or anything else.

How can you improve your conflict management and mitigation practices?  Come away from our webinar with the skills to plan for and productively manage disagreement. This webinar builds on a popular panel that was presented at the California Land Recycling Conference in 2018.

Speakers:
Joan Isaacson, Kearns and West
Michael Fortunato, CICD

Learn about the new EPA Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup (MAC) brownfields grant competition and key tricks of the trade as you prepare your FY 2019 grant applications. This webinar will also include a "how to" for TAB EZ*. Hosted by the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR), the KSU Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities Program, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). *TAB EZ is a FREE online tool intended to streamline and simplify the grant writing process when applying for EPA brownfields assessment and cleanup grants. 

Speakers: 
Rachel Lentz | U.S. EPA 
Maggie Egbarts | Kansas State University 
Ignacio Dayrit | Center for Creative Land Recycling 
Elizabeth Limbrick | New Jersey Institute of Technology 
Ken Brown | Center for Creative Land Recycling 

See the recording HERE: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/8939217945868584715

TAB can review drafts of Multipurpose, Asessment, and Cleanup (MAC) grant proposals at no cost! Please contact the TAB provider for your Region provide at least one-week notice of sending drafts for review: 

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Únete a nuestro equipo de CCLR Puerto Rico, que discutirá las opciones que el programa de brownfield ofrece para el desarrollo de áreas abandonadas y/o contaminadas. Haremos recomendaciones para para abordar las nuevas guías 2019 para la solicitud de fondos en sus diferentes modalidades (evaluaciones, limpieza y usos multiples (MAC por sus siglas en Inglés). Hablaremos de los aspectos claves y el desarrollo de una estrategia para presentar nuestra historia de una manera contundente y de manera convincente.  

Nuestros oradores Sonia Cosme y David Southgate con experiencias exitosas en  la preparación de propuestas de brownfield.   

Sonia Cosme | EDS Puerto Rico  
David Southgate | Center for Creative Land Recycling

Please view a recording of the webinar here. 

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) have been around - in your clothing, cookware, carpets, etc. - since the 1950's, but are new in the brownfields world. The implications on property transactions and redevelopment projects is also new to us. Our panel will discuss the evolving regulatory landscape and the perspective from the insurance industry. We will provide the background and tools to allow the redevelopment community to evaluate and address PFAS risks on projects. So PFAS-en your seat belts as we give you the low-down and tools to evaluate its risks to projects. 

Speakers: 
Edward Conti, Principal Geologist, EKI Environment & Water, Inc. 
Virginia Yingling, Hydrogeologist, Minnesota Department of Health & Co-Lead of ITRC PFAS Team 
Trisha Blau, Environmental Services Group Managing Director, Aon Risk Solutions