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Brownfields 1999 Conference Program Guide
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Track 5: Marketplace of Ideas
In addition to the traditional tracks and panels, Brownfields
'99 offers this series of Marketplace of Ideas sessions. These
smaller, more interactive discussions will cover a wide range of subject
areas and will feature experts in a variety of brownfields-related topics.
Marketplace sessions may pick up on issues raised during panels or explore
new areas. There are a number of sessions already scheduled, and there
will be space available for attendees who wish to schedule their own
sessions as the conference progresses. Sign up for a session or schedule
your own at the Marketplace of Ideas booth in the registration
area. 5A: A Mayor's Role in Small City Brownfields Redevelopment Level: 200 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: How important is elected local government leadership to successful brownfields redevelopment in small cities? Hear from and speak directly to Mayors from small cities across the country whose experiences have helped craft successful strategies for using the benefits and visibility of elected office to move brownfields redevelopment forward. Speakers and Affiliation: The Honorable Thomas R. Suozzi (Facilitator) Mayor City of Glen Cove Glen Cove, NY 5B: Making the Money Match the Mess Level: 300 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 4:00-5:30 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: Some brownfield sites have appreciated in value so greatly from economic growth taking place around them that they require no financial jump starts... this discussion session is for the other 98 percent of sites. For redevelopment to make financial and economic sense for these sites, brownfield project managers must capitalize on grants, loans, tax breaks and/or other financial incentives, including innovative contracting between developer, end user, seller, and consultant(s). Case studies and lists of sources for each financial tool will be offered for discussion by the facilitator and solicited from participants. Speakers and Affiliation: Morgan Perry (Facilitator) Business and Environmental Consultant Exponent Bellevue, WA 5C1: Overview of Geographic Information System (GIS) Concepts Using Arcview Level: 100 Date: Monday, December 6, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Tech Town/Exhibit Hall Purpose: This session will provide those with little or no experience in GIS with a basic introduction to the concepts, technology, data, and applications of GIS. Demonstrations and a brief hands-on tutorial will be included. Speakers and Affiliation: Bill Wheaton (Facilitator) GIS Program Manager Research Triangle Institute Research Triangle Park, NC 5C2: Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Brownfields Projects Level: 200 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Tech Town/Exhibit Hall Purpose: This session will discuss potential uses of GIS in brownfields aplications and will demonstrate GIS applications developed for mid-sized cities. Demonstrations and a brief hands-on tutorial will be included. Speakers and Affiliation: Bill Wheaton (Facilitator) GIS Program Manager Research Triangle Institute Research Triangle Park, NC 5C3: Data Sources for Characterizing Communities Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Level: 200 Date: Wednesday, December 8, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Tech Town/Exhibit Hall Purpose: This session will provide an overview of relevant health and socio-environmental concepts and data for characterizing communities over time at different geographic levels. An ArcView GIS demonstration and brief hands-on tutorial will be included. Speakers and Affiliation: Janet Heitgerd (Facilitator) Sociologist Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Atlanta, GA 5D: Details of the 'Big Picture:' Urban Design Considerations in Brownfields Redevelopment Level: 200 Date: Monday, December 6, 1999 Time: 1:00-2:30 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: Resource people from a range of municipalities who have used brownfields redevelopment as a key factor in re-establishing or re-inventing their identity will be available to informally share experiences, successes, disappointments, and tips. Small and large cities will be represented. Approaches to design and redevelopment include historic preservation, waterfront rejuvenation, habitat restoration, master plan determinants, neighborhood empowerment, and transportation planning. Speakers and Affiliation: Frances E. Hoffman (Facilitator) Vice President for Planning and Research Institute for Responsible Management New Brunswick, NJ 5E: Brownfields to Backyards Level: 100 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 4:00-5:30 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: Residential reuse is an emerging trend in brownfields redevelopment. This session will look at the challenges and opportunites for turning abandoned buildings or vacant lots into new homes and neighorhoods. Come share with us your experiences or learn new ideas for turning environmental liabilities into community opportunities for housing and homeownership. Speakers and Affiliation: Melodie Shatzer (Facilitator) Community Builder Fellow U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Dallas, TX 5F: Religious and Spiritual Organizations as Leaders in Brownfields Redevelopment Level: 100 Date: Monday, December 6, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: Religious institutions have long been deeply concerned with both environmental protection concerns and targeted economic development, particularly for those most vulnerable. When brownfields is seen as a catalyst to neighborhood restoration and vitality, then the effective involvement of these institutions can bring to the table very practical organization skills and loci for action, significant economic resources, and the critical infusion of moral commitment to the brownfields development process. This session will gather involved leaders of religious institutions from the national, regional (or judicatory), and local/grass roots levels to compare both strategies and experiences. Speakers and Affiliation: Charles Lee (Co-facilitator) Associate Director, Office of Environmental Justice U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC Charles W. Powers (Co-facilitator) President Institute for Responsible Management New Brunswick, NJ 5G: Redeveloping Federal Facilities and Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) Level: 200 Date: Monday, December 6, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: Idled federal facilities face a unique set of barriers to successful redevelopment. Join officials from the U.S. Department of Defense and other interested parties for a discussion about 'federal' brownfields, the challenges posed to their reuse, and the prospects for overcoming them. Speakers and Affiliation: Karla Perri (Facilitator) Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Environmental Cleanup Department of Defense Washington, DC 5H: Planting the Seeds for Redevelopment: Phytoremediation and Brownfields Site Cleanup Level: 200 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 2:15-3:45 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: The use of plants to clean-up or stabilize waste sites (phytoremediation) is an area of increasing interest to those seeking more permanent yet low cost, low maintenance, and/or low impact solutions to non-time-critical sites. The goal of this marketplace is to identify lessons learned, successes, and concerns with this technology and to create a better understanding of the information and support needed to advance this promising technology in the brownfields arena. Speakers and Affiliation: William Librizzi, P.E. (Co-facilitator) Director of Technology Applications NJ Institute of Technology Newark, NJ Daniel M. Powell (Co-facilitator) Team Leader U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 5I: Here Today or Gone Tomorrow: Deciding Between a Containment or Treatment Remedy Level: 200 Date: Wednesday, December 8, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: This session will encourage a dialogue on the advantages and limitations for selecting a containment option vs. a treatment remedy at a brownfields site. The session seeks to identify decision factors affecting these choices such as cost, timeliness, site use, existing site operations or resources, future liability, etc. The marketplace is intended to initiate discussions leading to better tools for site decision makers to compare site needs with available options. Speakers and Affiliation: Carlos S. Pachon (Co-facilitator) Program Analyst U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC Charles W. Powers (Co-facilitator) President Institute for Responsible Management New Brunswick, NJ 5J: From Eyesore to Corner Store: Urban Retail on Brownfields Level: 100 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 8:45-10:15 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: What does it take to bring retail back to your city? Find out what retailers and developers are looking for when deciding where to build their stores and how you can better market your properties to attract their investment. Speakers and Affiliation: Richard F. Warren (Facilitator) Senior Director, State Relations International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Alexandria, VA 5K: Conversion and Reuse of Airports Level: 200 Date: Monday, December 6, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: This session will use the recent conversion of Bergstrom AFB into the new Austin international airport as a backdrop to discuss the complicated planning and implementation involved in airport conversions. Topics will include assessment, remediation, closure of sites, demolition, construction activities, and meeting tight deadlines. Also to be discussed is the conversion of the former Austin airport into residential/commercial development. Speakers and Affiliation: Mark P. Hemingway (Facilitator) Principal Hydrogeologist Geomatrix Consultants Austin, TX Tamara Moore (Facilitator) Airport Planner City of Austin Department of Aviation Austin, TX 5L: Loan Officers' Forum (FDIC) Level: 300 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 2:15-3:45 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: Meetings and conversations occur between bank loan officers or other financial institution loan officers and developers about loans needed to develop brownfield properties - capital costs such as construction or environmental clean-up costs. The goals of the workshop are to 1) identify generally what financial institutions look for before the institution approves a loan for both capital and environmental costs from the perspective of the loan officer and developer; and 2) examine Community Reinvestment Act credit as an influential factor in making loans for brownfield redevelopment projects from the perspective of financial institutions and the Federal Financial Regulator. Speakers and Affiliation: Eloy Villafranca (Facilitator) Community Affairs Officer Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Dallas, TX 5M: The City of Emeryville Brownfields Pilot Project Level: 200 Date: Monday, December 6, 1999 Time: 1:00-2:30 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: This session will describe the successes of the City of Emeryville's brownfield pilot project that was awarded first prize in the Information Technology in the Environment Category at the Global Bangemann Challenge in Stockholm, Sweden. The city's goal is to develop a city-wide mitigation and risk management plan that will include a water management plan, public education programs, a mitigation fund, and a GIS-based "one stop shop." Speakers and Affiliation: Lester Feldman (Facilitator) Principal Scientist Geomatrix Consultants Oakland, CA 5N: Mercados and Outdoor Markets Level: 100 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 8:45-10:15 AM Location: Marketplace Purpose: Come and learn about how many cities and towns have used brownfields as the sites for the successful development of Markets, traditional Hispanic outdoor markets, and other Open-Air Markets. These markets have become popular landmarks and centers for neighborhood redevelopment. Speakers and Affiliation: Gilbert Hernandez (Facilitator) Contract Services and Special Facilities Manager San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department San Antonio, TX 5O: Brownfields Title VI Case Studies Level: 100 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 2:15-3:45 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: This session will provide participants an opportunity to discuss the research and findings of the recent EPA study of the effects of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on Brownfields Redevelopment. Speakers and Affiliation: Kent A. Benjamin (Facilitator) Environmental Justice Coordinator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 5P: Brownfields Data System Development Level: 200 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: Feeling like the technology age has left you behind? What brownfields information would help you to make business decisions and form company policies? This discussion will focus on the renovation of EPA's brownfields data management systems: what key elements should be included; who are the interested users; and, how should data be accessed? Please come and share your views. Speakers and Affiliation: Tony Jover (Facilitator) Senior Information Resources Management Official U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 5Q1: Dallas Arena Site Workshop Level: 100 Date: Monday, December 6, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: This presentation will be given at the Arena site by site developers, and their environmental consultants and engineers. The workshop will include an outdoor discussion of the site and its reuse plan while viewing on-going cleanup and development. Sign up for this workshop will be at the Marketplace of Ideas registration area. Speakers and Affiliation: Reagan C. Rorschach P.E. (Facilitator) Principle Entact, Inc. Irving, TX Michael E. Covert National Director - Environmental Due Diligence HBC/Terracon Dallas, TX Mark Edwards, P.G. Senior Geologist Halff Associates, Inc. Dallas, TX Keith A. Shuley, Esq. Partner Hughes & Luce L.L.P. Austin, TX 5Q2: Dallas Arena Site Workshop Level: 100 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: This additional presentation will be given at the Arena site by site developers, and their environmental consultants and engineers. The workshop will include an outdoor discussion of the site and its reuse plan while viewing on-going cleanup and development. Sign up for this workshop will be at the Marketplace of Ideas registration area. Speakers and Affiliation: Reagan C. Rorschach P.E. (Facilitator) Principle Entact, Inc. Irving, TX Michael E. Covert National Director - Environmental Due Diligence HBC/Terracon Dallas, TX Mark Edwards, P.G. Senior Geologist Halff Associates, Inc. Dallas, TX Keith A. Shuley, Esq. Partner Hughes & Luce L.L.P. Austin, TX 5R: Dallas McCommas Bluff Landfill and Floral Farms Workshop Level: 100 Date: Monday, December 6, 1999 Time: 1:00-2:30 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: Visit the largest municipal solid waste landfill west of the Mississippi and see operations including the methane recovery facility, EcoGas. Workshop includes visit to the Floral Farms project, future home of the International Environmental Training and Technology Center and surrounding Dallas Eco-business Park. This project is a partnership with the Economic Development Administration (EDA), academic institutions, and Dallas County Open Space Commission. Presentations will be given by landfill staff, specialists on economic development, and project engineers. Sign up for this workshop will be at the Marketplace of Ideas registration area. Speakers and Affiliation: Marilyn Avinger (Co-facilitator) Manager City of Dallas Economic Development Department Dallas, TX Robert Prock (Co-facilitator) Associate Director Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) College Station, TX John A. Barlow, IV Solid Waste Landfill Manager City of Dallas Dallas, TX 5S: Eco-Industrial Parks and Brownfields Redevelopment Level: 100 Date: Monday, December 6, 1999 Time: 1:00-2:30 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: This session will illustrate successful and emerging projects for redevelopment using an eco-industrial approach that seeks business and environmental excellence in economic development. Examples and ways to proceed will be presented. Speakers and Affiliation: Edward Cohen-Rosenthal (Facilitator) Director Cornell Center for the Environment Ithaca, NY 5T: Quietly Making Noise: General Services Administration's (GSA's) Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative Revisited Level: 100 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 8:45-10:15 AM Location: Marketplace Purpose: GSA's Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative has been an innovative and proactive approach to urban revitalization and community redevelopment. The program has blended active community participation, strong federal, state, and local partnering, and effective technical analysis to bolster local redevelopment projects through the reuse of underutilized federal properties. The session will be an opportunity to bring together officials from GSA and representatives from the program's 39 project location communities. Attendees will examine the status of GSA's brownfields program review past successes, and discuss what lies ahead for the partnerships that have been formed. Speakers and Affiliation: John Q. Martin (Facilitator) Director, Property Utilization and Disposal General Services Administration Washington, DC 5U: Environmental Decision-Making in Goleta Old Town Brownfields Level: 200 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 4:00-5:30 PM Location: Marketplace Purpose: Join a discussion led by a research team of graduate students from the University of California, Santa Barbara that is investigating how to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to drive the formulation and selection of goals for brownfields development. The three components to the project include site characterization and assessment, risk management and community concerns, and development of a site suitability methodology. Share your insights with the team and learn how its research can be replicated for your community. Speakers and Affiliation: Effie Milionis (Facilitator) Student UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 5V: Using Clean Water/Drinking Water State Revolving Funds Level: 200 Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Time: 8:45-10:15 AM Location: Marketplace Purpose: The Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) is a powerful tool for site assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites that suffer from water quality impairement. CWSRFs provide low to interest-free loans to help successfully improve the water quality at brownfield sites. Come and learn from the experiences of brownfield sites in Ohio, Wisconsin and New Mexico and their interaction with CWSRFs. Speakers and Affiliation: Kathy A. Blaha (Facilitator) Vice President Trust for Public Land Washington, DC 5W: Providing Site Remediation Tools to Local Government Level: 100 Date: Wednesday, December 8, 1999 Time: 10:30-12:00 noon Location: Marketplace Purpose: Local governments on a world-wide basis are currently exploring the issue of site remediation and realize that brownfields can be turned into "greenfields" or "goldfields." This marketplace session will highlight an online site remediation directory that contains over 670 of the latest and most innovative technologies available world-wide. Information, a demonstration of the directory, and a chance to search the database will be the focus of this interactive workshop. Speakers and Affiliation: Tammy Lomas-Jylha (Facilitator) Program Coordinator Ontario Center for Environmental Technology Advancement Canada 
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