Breathing New Life Into Brownfields.

Plants Sites & Parks, August, 1999 by Johnson, Clint

Breathing New Life Into Brownfields

As recently as two years ago, announcements about companies constructing major new factories, office buildings or back-office operations came with an expectation. It was expected that these new facilities would be built in areas that had never before seen development. They were quite literally in green fields.

Once the rezoning was accomplished, trees had to be felled, brush cleared, hills flattened, ravines filled. Water, sewer and natural gas lines had to be laid, maybe even a spur rail line. New access roads and sometimes extra highway lanes, often paid for by the county and state governments, had to be paved.

On the day of the facilities' grand openings, ribbons would be cut, production machines would...

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