The National Brownfields Conference 2008
Cobo Center Detroit, MI
May 7, 2008 9:00am - 10:15am
Session: Looking for Leverage in All the Right Places
This session demonstrated various ways developers, municipalities and EPA grantees have leveraged US EPA Brownfields assessment grant funding and state and local brownfield incentives. Developers and successful grantees have learned that the true value of the state and local incentives and EPA Brownfield grants is the ability to leverage the funding in a way that maximizes community wide redevelopment activity. An effective community outreach and education program, the assessment of strategic sites, targeted risk assessments, cleanup planning, land planning, non-brownfield based tax incentives, and limitations of liabilities are critical to maximizing redevelopment in a targeted area. Leveraging occurs and is maximized when other financial resources, technical resources and similar community programs work together in a collaborative way. This session will review detailed examples of developments in large and small communities that have successful leveraged brownfield incentives and EPA grants into millions or even billions of dollars of developments.
Panel Moderator: Richard Barr, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
Panel Speaker: Matt Robbins, U.S. EPA
Panel Speaker: Brian Holtzclaw, U.S. EPA, Region 4
Panel Speaker: Michele McIntosh-Ross, City of Atlanta - see Presentation