CONNECTICUT BROWNFIELD LAND BANK

For more than 20 years local governments throughout the country, with grants and assistance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state environmental agencies, have successfully redeveloped thousands of vacant, abandoned industrial properties, transforming them into economic and community centered developments. Many developers, community leaders and local government officials overlook the catalytic potential of brownfields redevelopments given the technical complexities often associated with these types of projects. With this reality in mind, a group of state and local brownfields experts, with support from U.S. EPA Region 1, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), and Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), coalesced around creating one of the nation's first brownfields land banks-a one-stop shop for helping communities throughout the state facilitate brownfields redevelopment projects and more broadly..

Also known as: Connecticut Brownfield Land Bank, Inc

Primary location: Waterbury United States