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Forging Partnerships
Create Demand for Cleaned up Properties
Forging Partnerships
- Leverage Technical/ Financial Resources
- Create Demand for Cleaned Up Properties
- Improve / Coordinate Government Efforts
- Promote Sustainability
Retail/Commercial
Partnerships (4 pp, 14K, About PDF)
EPA is looking for private sector partnerships with companies willing
to promote retail/commercial reuses by locating and opening new operations
on petroleum contaminated brownfields properties. Through a partnership
with EPA, private sector entities could commit to a company-wide goal
of locating a certain percentage of its planned new shops/businesses on
petroleum contaminated brownfields properties. Alternatively, the company
may identify sites-specific petroleum contaminated brownfield properties
and commit to locate new operations on the specified sites.
Residential/Housing
Partnership (PDF) (4 pp, 14K, About PDF)
To promote residential development and housing, EPA is working with Housing
and Urban Development (HUD),
Habitat for Humanity International
,
and other organizations. Under this partnership, EPA and its partners
work together to leverage public and private resources, streamline petroleum
contaminated brownfield site cleanups which target abandoned gas stations,
and create an opportunity to reuse these properties for public and private
housing.
Ecological/Recreational
Partnership (PDF) (4 pp, 14K, About PDF)
EPA has an established partnership with the Wildlife
Habitat Council
(WHC) to promote ecological/recreational reuse at petroleum contaminated
brownfields properties. WHC is committed to facilitating the ecological/recreational
reuse of petroleum contaminated properties. WHC provides design expertise
to maximize the ecological benefit of the reuse and can bring together
all the key parties in a community to help reuse petroleum contaminated
properties for parks, wetlands, and other ecological and recreational
uses. EPA wants to expand this partnership to other private and public
sector entities to focus on abandoned gas stations and other petroleum
contaminated lands. Public and private sector partners could invest in
communities by reusing abandoned gas stations and other brownfields properties
for ecological/recreational purposes.