Sentences with phrase «brownfield sites»

Dr Richard Lord, Reader in Environmental Geochemistry and Sustainability at the university, received the award in Brussels at the end of May for the BioReGen Project, which looked at growing energy crops on brownfield sites in the North East of England.

Researchers this year identified 44,000 acres of brownfield sites in the state that are suitable for harvesting wind and solar power, according to a study conducted by Michigan State University's Land Policy Institute and the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

After initial review of the proposal, our membership has developed an early list of critical items that should be addressed by all parties to ensure the BCP continues to encourage persons to voluntarily remediate brownfield sites for reuse and redevelopment.

The so - called «Buffalo Billion,» for example, includes $ 225 million to build a facility for clean energy businesses on a 90 - acre former brownfield site on the Buffalo River.

And on the Gulf Coast, some 25 proposed plants would mostly be built on brownfield sites with access already to infrastructure and skilled local labour forces.

Wynn's pitch included its plan to buy the Mystic River location — a 33 - acre brownfield site where a Monsanto Co. factory once stood.

Atlantic Station, a 12 million sq. ft. mixed - use project under development in Midtown Atlanta, has overcome a series of environmental and financial obstacles since Jacoby Development first drafted plans to redevelop the 140 - acre brownfield site in...

The NPPF aims to bring more land forward for development, including brownfield sites, and ensure permissions are turned into homes as quickly as possible.

Santasieri noted that communities that make the effort to rehabilitate these parcels and put them back into use can see outsized returns due to the beneficial features of many brownfield sites, which are often located on waterways and hooked into basic infrastructure.

Mohawk Harbor Development Rivers Casino & Resort is the hub of the 60 - acre Mohawk Harbor Redevelopment Project, a waterfront mixed - use redevelopment of the decades - vacant location of American Locomotive Company, which was one of the oldest brownfield sites in the United States.

Gardens will no longer be classified as brownfield sites in a bid to stop developers taking them over, according to the government.

The Bethlehem site is one of the largest brownfield sites in upstate New York with over 1,000 acres, of which 400 acres are available for near - term redevelopment.

Katherine Nadeau, Policy Director at group Environmental Advocates of New York, said that the possibility of more federal funding to assist New York communities remediate brownfield sites comes in a time of need.

Response: Ideally, SMRs should be readily able to slot into brownfield sites in place of decommissioned coal - fired plants, the units of which are seldom very large.

A further 60,000 homes will also be built on brownfield sites owned by local authorities.

The main goal of the legislation is to reauthorize grants for cleaning up brownfield sites across the country.

«These 48 affordable homes will be constructed on a vacant Brownfield site in the North Chenango River Corridor Brownfield Opportunity Area, which is part of a local Waterfront Revitalization Plan Area that is experiencing significant redevelopment including an active neighborhood retail sector.

Liberal Democrat communities spokesman Andrew Stunell said: «This report confirms that developing brownfield sites is integral to solving Britain's housing crisis.»

Brownfield sites range from abandoned gas stations to rail yards and former heavy industrial manufacturing plants.

These new homes would be cheaper to develop and more locked into existing infrastructure than those on London's remaining poor - quality brownfield sites, making it possible to supply more affordable housing.

about 04/14 Remedy Proposed for Former Marble Quarry Landfill Brownfield Site (Tuckahoe) Public Comment Period and Public Meeting Announced 7 PM

New York U.S. Senator Charles Schumer was in Glens Falls today to call for Environmental Protection Agency funding to cleanup brownfield sites throughout the city.

in the Southern Tier, the Endicott Johnson Industrial Spine in Binghamton & Johnson City, with 17 potential brownfield sites near UHS Memeorial Hospital & near the desiognated area of the future Binghamton University School of Pharmacy, gets a $ 155,000 grant.

Many brownfields sites need millions of dollars to be transformed into community assets.

Here are boarded - up shop fronts, creeping housing developments built on muddy brownfield sites and a sinister semi-urban wood dappled with rubbish and dominated by a blackened tree that someone has attempted to burn.

Trash surveys a terrain that ranges from micro (a typology of dust bunnies) to macro (studies of landfill design and the trashed space of urban brownfield sites).

The project turned a 100 - year - old industrial brownfield site into a thriving stormwater ecosystem that captures, cleanses and slowly releases water to the adjacent Rouge River in ways that support watershed health.

$ 1.1 million for the second project in a larger portfolio of commercial and industrial solar projects, developed by BQ Energy, a renewable energy project developer specializing in landfill and brownfield site redevelopment.

«Everyone wanted it to have an olde - worlde look even though it was on a derelict brownfield site.»

For the typical brownfield site, which may have seen any number of previous industrial uses, that could mean presenting a smorgasbord of different types of processed waste, metals, petroleum byproducts, and chemical contaminants.

Bioswales along the perimeter of the building will carry water to a retention pond sitting outside the capped Brownfield site and serve as a water purification system for stormwater management.

Keep your eyes peeled for next year's recipient, and see which will be the next best brownfield site restored and put to work.

It reuses a city centre brownfield site.

Conventional as well as unconventional development issues often combine with so - called brownfield sites and slow the process of in - fill redevelopment, according to Grgas.

The GreenPark Group of Seal Beach, Calif., a real estate investment fund that has doled out $ 110 million over the last four years to help developers turn around brownfields sites, is ramping up its brownfields redevelopment activity.

One $ 10 million grant was going to the Denver Housing Authority to continue development of South Lincoln Park Homes, which is located next to a light rail stop and built on a formerly contaminated brownfield site.

Prior to joining the MCAP team, he worked for a boutique real estate appraisal and advisory firm in Toronto, specializing in re-development land and brownfield site valuation and analysis.

Mr Brown also announced pilot projects to encourage local authorities to give up brownfield sites for construction and to build more housing for rent.

That means building genuinely affordable rent social homes — mostly council — and ensuring new homes are built wherever possible on brownfield sites with public transport and other facilities.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a $ 225 million state investment to create a new campus center of clean - energy on a former brownfield site in Buffalo.

It also gives the location of nearby environmental trouble spots, including brownfield sites, hazardous waste dumps and chemical plants.

It highlights the small print in government planning regulations which classes gardens as brownfield sites - which makes them eligible for future development - and pledges to scrap plans to allow the compulsory purchase of this land by councils.

She has advocated «green development» in Kings Cross Railwaylands (the largest brownfield site in the UK) to provide more family - housing.

«The district I represent, Hamburg, Lackawanna and South Buffalo, is home to many brownfield sites, which is a challenge but is also grounds for great potential.

Lawmakers also raised concerns about nearly three dozen tax credit programs — affecting everything from low income house developments to cleaning up of old brownfield sites — will be deferred under the new Cuomo budget.

These homes will all be built on brownfield sites, with specific areas already identified.