Brownfields Nuts and Bolts of Brownfield Redevelopment for Local Government Training

Many areas have been left with vacant contaminated land that blights local neighborhoods and undermines the local tax base. The /*Nuts and Bolts of Brownfield Redevelopment for Local Government*/ training course addresses the issues and obstacles to redeveloping brownfield sites for productive reuse. Participants learn how many communities have overcome obstacles and stimulated successful redevelopment by characterizing and assembling parcels, cleaning up sites, and using public and private funds to attract private redevelopment.

This year's /*Nuts and Bolts of Brownfield Redevelopment for Local Government */training course is being hosted by the Great Lakes Environmental Finance Center and the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. The training course will be conducted from *June 5-9, 2006*, at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs on the Cleveland State University campus in Cleveland, Ohio. Participants will hear from professionals in topical areas such as the economics of brownfield redevelopment, environmental site assessments, underground storage tanks, risk assessment, environmental insurance, historic preservation incentives, environmental justice and citizen participation, community development and urban planning in the context for brownfield redevelopment, and financing options at the local, state, and federal levels. The tentative agenda and details on the training course can be viewed at http://urban.csuohio.edu/nuts_and_bolts/

The training course is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Northeast Midwest Institute.

The course fee is $350 per participant. Registration for the /*Nuts and Bolts of Brownfield Redevelopment for Local Government*/ training course is available online at http://urban.csuohio.edu/nuts_and_bolts/

Lodging for the training course is available at the Wyndham Cleveland Hotel Playhouse Square, 1260 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115, (216) 615-7500. Room cutoff date for special rate is May 15, 2006. Participants can register online at http://urban.csuohio.edu/nuts_and_bolts/

For more information on the training course, please contact Vivian Tucker, Great Lakes Environmental Finance Center, at *(216) 687-2188 *or by email at vivian@urban.csuohio.edu.

We look forward to seeing you June 5-9th!