FREE WEBINAR: Small Communities, Big Challenges: A 2013 Series on Problem Properties

Webinar 1: Beyond Triage
April 16, 2013, 2 to 3 pm EDT

This webinar will feature panelists from across Ohio, including:

 • Sister Barbara Busch, Executive Director of Working in Neighborhoods (Cincinnati)
 • Sally Martin, Housing Manager for South Euclid (a suburb of Cleveland)
 • Joel Owens, Director of Community Building Partnership of Stark County

These experts will discuss the precursors of abandonment, and how working with area nonprofits can greatly assist smaller communities in their strategic deployment of resources to neighborhoods. The webinar will demonstrate how local governments and nonprofits together provide foreclosure prevention services and rehabilitation for blighted property. How can a municipality engage private investment in existing homes that require maintenance or rehabilitation? How can homeowners identify home repair resources? What are the avenues for nonprofits, local governments and private homeowners to access to capital for major rehabilitation?

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Fort Smith wants Whirlpool pollution monitored (AR)

City Wire (AR)
by R. Saylor
April 2, 2013

The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved a resolution Tuesday evening (April 2) urging Whirlpool and the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality to quickly clean up a plume of trichloroethylene (TCE) in and around Whirlpool's former manufacturing facility. The resolution mentioned not only TCE, but "all pollutants," be cleaned up. "Be it further resolved that the Board of Directs and the City of Fort Smith expect continuous effort and effective communication from both Whirlpool and ADEQ as appropriate to keep the general public appraised of the progress and status of all efforts to remediate this Emergency Situation," the resolution read.


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National Brownfield Conference - Individualized Consultation on Your Brownfields Project

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Free Webinar - What Happened to the #Brownfields Tax Incentive?

When: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT

Join NALGEP and the #National Brownfield Coalition for a FREE Webinar to hear from national experts about how the Brownfields Tax Incentive works, why it is so powerful and effective, how specific projects have used the incentive, and strategies to renew it.

Hear from:

- Daniel Walsh, Director of New York City’s Office of Environmental Remediation
- Mark McIntyre, General Counsel for New York City’s Office of Environmental Remediation
- Evans Paull, Executive Director of the National Brownfields Coalition

Since 1997, the Brownfields Tax Incentive has encouraged brownfields cleanup and redevelopment. This federal incentive, also known as IRS § 198, allows cleanup costs at brownfields to be fully deducted in the year incurred, rather than capitalized and deducted incrementally over a property’s useful life. This incentive, however, expired at the end of 2011 and has not been renewed. In this webinar, experts will describe the incentive, describe projects across the country that have used it, and educate attendees about current legislative efforts to renew the incentive.

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