brownfield
noun
brown·field
ˈbrau̇n-ˌfēld 
often attributive
: a tract of land that has been developed for industrial purposes, polluted, and then abandoned
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The blueprint for Elkhart, Indiana, included remaking a neighborhood where low-income residents had been displaced by a highway, and turning one of the Rust Belt’s many brownfields—former industrial locations—into a park.
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Zoom in: The $740 million venture aims to build a housing, shopping and entertainment hub, anchored by a nearly 200-foot-tall Ferris wheel, on a 15-acre brownfield on the city's North Shore, near the Rivers Casino.
—Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
For one dollar, a development group with a brownfields specialty has purchased the ultimate fixer-upper — a 33-acre parcel on the Bridgeport waterfront that comes with responsibility to demolish a power plant and its iconic red-and-white smoke stack, remediate the site and redevelop it.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 20 Nov. 2024
Because of their smaller size—which averages less than 5 megawatts on anywhere up to to a few dozen acres—they can be built over otherwise unusable land like old landfills or on brownfields.
—Sarah Sax, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Zoom in: The $740 million venture aims to build a housing, shopping and entertainment hub, anchored by a nearly 200-foot-tall Ferris wheel, on a 15-acre brownfield on the city's North Shore, near the Rivers Casino.
—Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
For one dollar, a development group with a brownfields specialty has purchased the ultimate fixer-upper — a 33-acre parcel on the Bridgeport waterfront that comes with responsibility to demolish a power plant and its iconic red-and-white smoke stack, remediate the site and redevelop it.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 20 Nov. 2024
Because of their smaller size—which averages less than 5 megawatts on anywhere up to to a few dozen acres—they can be built over otherwise unusable land like old landfills or on brownfields.
—Sarah Sax, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Brownfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brownfield. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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brownfield
noun
brown·field
ˈbrau̇n-ˌfēld
: a tract of land that has been developed for industrial purposes, polluted, and then abandoned
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