Brownfield Opportunity: CDFA's Brownfield Project Marketplace

Does your community have a brownfield redevelopment project that could use financing assistance?

CDFA's Brownfields Project Marketplace provides an opportunity to present your brownfield redevelopment project to experts who can help identify potential resources for the project.

The Marketplaces are open to all communities. CDFA will conduct two in-person and two virtual marketplaces each year. To apply, please complete the form found in the link below. This information will help us select technical assistance partners best suited to provide expertise unique to your project. CDFA staff will follow up with you at the contact information you provide below to confirm your submission.

>>>>> Complete Project Marketplace Application <<<<<<<

Upcoming Marketplace Events:

• March 16-20: Online Brownfields Project Marketplace with sessions scheduled in 30 minute time slots to occur sometime during that week.
• May 19, 2015: In-Person Brownfields Project Marketplace at CDFA's Rosenberg Center in Columbus, OH.

The Project Marketplace will include a brief presentation by a community detailing important information on their brownfield project followed by an open discussion period among community officials and technical assistance partners.

Take advantage of this opportunity to receive group technical assistance and explore potential financing sources!

Contact CDFA with any questions at info@cdfa.net

CDFA Brownfield Financing Webinar Series

CDFA is excited to announce the CDFA Brownfield Financing Webinar Series as part of the CDFA Brownfields Technical Assistance Program. Brownfield redevelopment financing solutions are increasingly sought across the country in order to restore contaminated sites and/or to return abandoned industrial land to productive use. The cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield sites can advance a region’s economy, restore the local environment, and ultimately lead to permanent job creation and greater attraction of external capital to the community.

The series will include three 90-minute webinars over the year and will focus on effective utilization of brownfield and redevelopment financing tools, while highlighting best practices, case studies, and CDFA’s technical assistance program participants. This series is designed for professionals who work directly with brownfield sites as well as economic development professionals and communities interested in shaping programs to enhance redevelopment financing opportunities

Click on the Register button below to confirm your participation and receive login information. Registration is free and open to all interested stakeholders.

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Upcoming Webcasts

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February 19, 2014 @ 2:00 pm Eastern

Brownfield Redevelopment Community Showcase: Financing Tools for Transformation

Join CDFA at 2pm EST on February 19, 2015 for the first installment in the Brownfield Finance Redevelopment Webinar Series. This debut webinar will highlight communities that have successfully employed the development finance toolbox to transform former brownfield sites into economic assets. Join us to discover how tools such as tax increment finance, loan funds and tax credits can bring your brownfield redevelopment projects to life!

Click on the Register button below to confirm your participation and receive login information. Registration is free and open to all interested stakeholders.

Brownfield Workshop - Clarksdale, MS - February 26, 2015

Join CCLR for an amazing opportunity to learn from the experts on how to manage brownfield redevelopment projects. This workshop is designed for redevelopment practitioners in Mississippi and Arkansas, from local governments, nonprofits, and the private sector with an interest in learning the nuts-and-bolts of redeveloping environmentally challenged property. Recycling abandoned and under-utilized properties in the Delta Region requires special knowledge and skills to manage contaminant issues. This practical and interactive workshop will provide project managers with the tools, techniques, and funding resources required to bring projects in on-time and on-budget.

Seasoned brownfield redevelopment practitioners will be on-hand to discuss funding sources and give you the advice you need to move your project forward. The workshop will be held at the offices of the Delta Regional Authority. Presenters from across Mississippi and Arkansas will discuss a number of successful brownfield redevelopment projects, and all attendees will have a unique opportunity to get an inside perspective on the projects. Other case studies will highlight a range of brownfield reuse opportunities applicable to both rural and urban communities in the Delta.

Cost:
Free (lunch provided)
Date and Time:
Wednesday, February 26, 2015, 9:00 am - 4:15 pm
Location:
The Delta Regional Authority, 236 Sharkey Avenue, Suite 400, Clarksdale, MS

The workshop is expected to fill quickly, so early registration is recommended. For more details and to register, click REGISTER below.

REGISTER

CCLR’s past workshops have received stellar reviews. This is the perfect opportunity to learn how to take blighted or underutilized land in your community and turn it into a community asset. For more information, contact Emma Leonard at (415) 398-1080 x100, emma.leonard@cclr.org.

Sustainable Communities and Green Infrastructure Guidance

A new report, Enhancing Sustainable Communities With Green Infrastructure: A guide to help communities better manage stormwater while achieving other environmental, public health, social, and economic benefits, aims to help local governments, water utilities, nonprofit organizations, neighborhood groups, and other stakeholders integrate green infrastructure strategies into plans that can transform their communities. Many communities that want to use green infrastructure approaches face technical, regulatory, financial, and institutional obstacles that limit widespread implementation. This report serves as a guide to develop a plan that can overcome these obstacles for neighborhoods, towns, cities, and regions of all sizes. It also can help stakeholders create a vision for how green infrastructure can enhance their communities beyond reducing stormwater runoff, and directs readers to other resources that provide more detailed information that can be tailored to communities’ particular climate, goals, and circumstances.

The report is paired with a blog post by Joel Beauvais, Associate Administrator for EPA’s Office of Policy, on how green infrastructure is helping to transform neighborhoods, and a graphic to help communities quickly envision the 10 steps to developing a sustainable community and green infrastructure plan. You can also find photographs of green infrastructure approaches in communities on the Flickr page shown below.

• Read the report: http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/green-infrastructure.html
• Read the blog post: http://blog.epa.gov/epaconnect/2014/10/green-infrastructure-helping-to-transform-neighborhoods-in-cleveland-and-across-the-nation/
• View the graphic: http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/green-infrastructure-10steps-scip.html
• View the photos in Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usepagov/sets/72157648579274857/