Definition of brownfield
: a tract of land that has been developed for industrial purposes, polluted, and then abandoned
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The public funding includes a state brownfield loan of $1.5 million, state and federal historic tax credits of $3.6 million and a $2.8 million loan from the Capital Region Development Authority.
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Indeed, Ford's work at the Michigan Central Station and in Corktown sound very much like the kind of mega-projects that the state's new transformational brownfield tax incentives were created to make happen.
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The proposal also includes details for cleanup of brownfield sites.
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Cook County is in line for more than $1.3 million in federal grant money that will be used to evaluate and clean up brownfield sites in Ford Heights, Chicago Heights and Sauk Village.
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That junkyard was a brownfield that need substantial clean-up and remediation.
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But just as rivers can be reclaimed and brownfields can be remediated, communities can form countercultures against bias.
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Old industrial sites and brownfield areas along the river are being redeveloped into parks, greenways and golf courses, allowing more public access.
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The administrator also contacted some lawmakers from both parties Wednesday to inform them that their districts had received agency grants to clean up former industrial sites, known as brownfields.
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First Known Use of brownfield
1977
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legal Definition of brownfield
: a tract of land that has been developed for industrial purposes, polluted, and then abandoned
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