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Lead Remediation at Brownfields Sites, New England Multiple States 1 2020 Brownfields Riverfront Revitalization — Goodwin College, East Hartford, CT (Video) Connecticut 1 2016 639 Main Street East Hartford, Conn. Connecticut 1 2021 East Hartford, CT: A Sweet Treat for an Evolving Neighborhood Connecticut 1 2021 Ryan Park, Norwalk, Conn. Connecticut 1 2020 Swift Factory, Hartford, Conn. Connecticut 1 2019 Willimantic Whitewater Park, Willimantic, Conn. Connecticut 1 2020 United Community Family Services, Griswold, Conn. Connecticut 1 2019 Howard Street Apartments, New London, Conn. Connecticut 1 2023 Meriden Green, Meriden, Conn. Connecticut 1 2023 Torin Site, Torrington, Conn. Connecticut 1 2023 Sanford Mill, Maine – EPA Brownfields Success Story (Video) Maine 1 2019 Hiram School Site, Hiram, Maine Maine 1 2021 Homestead Nursing Home, Kittery, Maine Maine 1 2020 Verso Paper Mill, Bucksport, ME Maine 1 2020 Thornton Heights Common, South Portland, Maine Maine 1 2023 Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine Portland, Maine Maine 1 2022 Old Town Paper Mill, Old Town, Maine Maine 1 2019 TW Dick Gardiner, Maine Maine 1 2021 SoilSHOP, Portland, Maine Maine 1 2020 Mayo Mill, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine Maine 1 2020 Well Site, Passamaquoddy Tribe, Pleasant Point, Maine Maine 1 2023 Wood Island Life Saving Station, Kittery, ME Maine 1 2023 Monroe Bridge Overlook, Monroe, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2021 Charles Tartaglia Park, Brockton, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2023 Union Station, Springfield, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2023 Bartlett Station, Boston, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2021 Belle Isle Salt Marsh, Boston, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2021 Polar Park, Worcester, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2021 25 Southgate Street, Worcester, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2024 Ferrous Site Lawrence, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2020 Ludlow Mills Ludlow, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2020 Creative Paper and Packaging Co., Worcester, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2024 The Stone House, Boston, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2023 870 Western Ave., Lynn, Mass. Massachusetts 1 2025 Farnum Center Manchester, N.H. New Hampshire 1 2019 Franconia Paper Mill – RiverWalk Resort Lincoln, N.H. New Hampshire 1 2020 Hilltop School, Somersworth, N.H. New Hampshire 1 2021 The Park Theatre, Jaffrey, N.H. New Hampshire 1 2021 Coventry, RI: Attracting Wildlife to a Former Dumping Ground Rhode Island 1 2015 Festival Pier (State Pier) Pawtucket, R.I. Rhode Island 1 2019 Meeting Street, Providence, R.I. Rhode Island 1 2020 Job Training for Dads in Rhode Island Rhode Island 1 2020 Branch Street, Pawtucket, R.I. Rhode Island 1 2023 250 Birge St., Brattleboro, Vt. Vermont 1 2025 Richmond Creamery, Richmond, Vt. Vermont 1 2023 City Market – South End (Onion River Co-op), Burlington, Vt. Vermont 1 2019 Goodyear Industrial Campus, Windsor, Vt. Vermont 1 2023 WaterFire Arts Center, Providence, R.I. Vermont 1 2021 Robertson Paper Mill, Bellows Falls, Vt. Vermont 1 2019 Albany General Store Albany, Vt. Vermont 1 2021 St. Johnsbury Hardware Store Site, St. Johnsbury, Vermont Vermont 1 2020 Pownal Dam, Town of Pownal, Vt. Vermont 1 2020 St. Johnsbury Glove Factory St. Johnsbury, Vt Vermont 1 2021 Three Rivers Trailhead, St. Johnsbury, Vt. Vermont 1 2021 Fonda Site, St. Albans, Vt. Vermont 1 2024 Woodbridge Township, NJ: Bringing Clean Energy to an Abandoned Waterfront New Jersey 2 2016 Brownfields Job Training Grants Create Double Benefits in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 2 2024 Yorklyn, DE: Clean Water Funds Brownfield Redevelopment Delaware 3 2019

Brownfield to Brewery: DNREC delivers a win-win in Delaware (pdf)

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Delaware 3 2019

2505 Maisel Street, Baltimore, MD (pdf)

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Maryland 3 2015

A Successful Transformation: Allentown Waterfront – Allentown, PA (pdf)

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Pennsylvania 3 2015

A Successful Transformation: Slate Belt YMCA (pdf)

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Pennsylvania 3 2015

Luzerne County, PA: Reclaiming Abandoned Mine Lands One Parcel at a Time (pdf)

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Pennsylvania 3 2015 Ambler, PA: Repowering a Historic Landmark Pennsylvania 3 2017 Norristown, PA: Redevelopment Gets Fired Up Pennsylvania 3 2017

Pittsburgh, PA: Luxury Living with an Industrial Legacy

Pennsylvania 3 2017

The Past Is Prologue for Taylor Colliery (pdf)

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Pennsylvania 3 2017

Empowered by Innovation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (pdf)

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Pennsylvania 3 2018

Carlisle, Pennsylvania – Carlisle Goes Vertical (pdf)

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Pennsylvania 3 2018

From Glass to Green Jeannette, Pennsylvania (pdf)

(725.21 KB, 2019)

Pennsylvania 3 2019

Former Refractory Site Transformed for Transloading (pdf)

(1.98 MB, September 2020)

Pennsylvania 3 2020

Turning a Steel Mill Brownfield into Hope Steelton, PA (pdf)

(1.25 MB, October 2020)

Pennsylvania 3 2020

Former Alcoa Research Park New Kensington, PA (pdf)

(329.66 KB, November 2020)

Pennsylvania 3 2020

Homewood Senior Housing & Café Homewood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)

(463.45 KB, November 2020)

Pennsylvania 3 2020

Lawrenceville’s Foundry Willow St. /Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PA. (pdf)

(368.71 KB, November 2020)

Pennsylvania 3 2020

Shell Distribution Facility McKees Rocks/Stowe, PA. (pdf)

(660.23 KB, November 2020)

Pennsylvania 3 2020

Piecing Together the Former Shenango Pottery Facility New Castle, Pennsylvania (pdf)

(360.03 KB, May 2021)

Pennsylvania 3 2021

‘Erie’ Assessments in Two Abandoned Facilities Erie County, Pennsylvania (pdf)

(511.92 KB, December 2022)

Pennsylvania 3 2022 Hopewell, VA: The Boat House at City Point Virginia 3 2019 Richmond, VA: Cheers to a Revitalized Neighborhood Virginia 3 2019 Roanoke, VA: A Renovated Building Gets Back to Its Roots Virginia 3 2017 Roanoke, VA: Giving Credit Where It’s Due Virginia 3 2017

Roanoke, Virginia – Roanoke Railway to Reuse (pdf)

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Virginia 3 2018

Revitalizing Rural Virginia Pulaski, Virginia (pdf)

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Virginia 3 2018

Waterfront Revitalization: From Industrial to Resilient Norfolk, Virginia (pdf)

(577.9 KB, 2020)

Virginia 3 2020

The Reinvention of Martinsville VA (pdf)

(634.13 KB, December 2022)

Virginia 3 2022

A Tasteful Redevelopment for a Former Gas Station Northampton County, Virginia (pdf)

(416.27 KB, December 2022)

Virginia 3 2022

A Successful Transformation: From Wasted Lot to Reading Hot‐Spot (pdf)

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West Virginia 3 2015

Brooke Glass Site, Wellsburg, WV (pdf)

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West Virginia 3 2015

Former Beckley Landfill – Beckley, WV (pdf)

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West Virginia 3 2015

Jimmy Carey Stadium, Weirton, WV (pdf)

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West Virginia 3 2016

Former Richwood Landfill – Richwood, WV (pdf)

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West Virginia 3 2015

Williams Lodge – Weirton, WV (pdf)

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West Virginia 3 2016 Weirton, WV: From Abandoned School to Main Event West Virginia 3 2017 Weirton, WV: A Former Coal Mine Springs to Life West Virginia 3 2017 Wellsburg, WV: A Local Manufacturing Expansion Takes Flight West Virginia 3 2017 Beech Bottom, WV: Forging a New Future in Steel Country West Virginia 3 2017 Ceredo, WV: A Community with Its Heart in the Right Place West Virginia 3 2018

Ranson and Charles Town, WV: A Tale of Two Cities (pdf)

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West Virginia 3 2015 Chester, WV: Dishing Up a New Business Park West Virginia 3 2017 Newell, WV: Former Football Field Scores a Victory at Home West Virginia 3 2017

Integrating Environmental Workforce Development and Brownfields Cleanup Coalfield Development Corporation (Wayne, West Virginia) (pdf)

(591.15 KB, March 29, 2021)

West Virginia 3 2021

A Successful Transformation: The Adamston Commons (pdf)

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West Virginia 3 2017 Greensboro, GA: Bringing Affordable Housing to a Historic Cotton Mill Georgia 4 2019 Lexington, KY: Revitalization on the Docket Kentucky 4 2020 Hernando, MS: Site Assessment Spur Property Redevelopment Across the City Mississippi 4 2023 Shubuta, MS: Strengthening Shubuta Mississippi 4 2016 Hickory, NC: Refashioning Hickory’s Historic Textile Mills North Carolina 4 2016 EPA Region 5 Brownfields: Redevelopment Success Stories in the Midwest Multiple States 5 2023 Chicago, IL: Strong Roots in Professional Growth Illinois 5 2019 Indianapolis, IN: Lending a Helping Hand to Veterans in Need Indiana 5 2020 Detroit, MI: Brownfield Redevelopment in Detroit Michigan 5 2023 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Redevelopment Video Series – Willow Run Part 1 – American Center for Mobility Michigan 5 2020 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Redevelopment Video Series – Willow Run Part 2 – Yankee Air Museum Michigan 5 2020 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Redevelopment Video Series – M1 Concourse Michigan 5 2020 Duluth, MN: Land Revitalization in the St. Louis River Corridor Minnesota 5 2022 Janesville, WI: Locally Driven Revitalization Plan Turns Riverfront Brownfields into a Downtown Destination Wisconsin 5 2019 Silver City, NM: The Silver Lining in an Abandoned Hospital New Mexico 6 2020 Austin, TX: Festival Beach Food Forest Texas 6 2020 Region 7 Land Revitalization Success Stories Multiple States 7 2023 Waterloo, IA: From Brownfields to Revitalized Downtown Iowa 7 2016 Lincoln, NE: A Heyday in West Haymarket Nebraska 7 2017

Spirit Lake Tribe, ND: Making Room for New Homes (pdf)

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North Dakota 8 2022

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Belcourt, ND: Collaboration to Revitalize Aging Homes (pdf)

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North Dakota 8 2021 Aurora, CO: Seeds of Success Colorado 8 2016 Denver, CO: Promoting Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and Affordable Housing Colorado 8 2015 Aurora, CO: Flying High Again Colorado 8 2018

Lakewood, CO: Housing and the Arts at Lamar Street Station (pdf)

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Colorado 8 2015 Great Falls, MT: Taking Back Downtown One Brownfield at a Time Montana 8 2015 Missoula, MT: Former Sawmill Redevelopments in Montana and Wyoming Montana 8 2015 Poplar, MT: Making Things Right at a Former Airfield Montana 8 2019

Minot, ND: After the Flood, Redevelopment Blooms (pdf)

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North Dakota 8 2019 Aberdeen, SD: Continuing a Legacy of Learning South Dakota 8 2018

Richmond, CA: Social Impact Bonds for Housing Revitalization (pdf)

(883.37 KB, August 2021)

California 9 2021

California 9 2016 A New Home for Affordable Health Care on the Hilltop Washington 10 2015 Seattle, WA: Redevelopment Yields Much-Needed Affordable Housing Washington 10 2019 Tillamook, OR: Going With the Flow to Prevent Flooding Oregon 10 2019 Hillsboro, OR: Navigating a New River Launch Oregon 10 2018

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights, January/February/March 2017 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2017

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights, October/November/December 2017 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2017

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights January/February/March 2018 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2018

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights April/May/June 2018 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2018

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights July/August/September 2018 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2018

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights October/November/December 2018 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2018

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights January/February/March 2019 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2019

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights April/May/June 2019 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2019

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights July/August/September 2019 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2019

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights October/November/December 2019 (pdf)

(1.69 MB)

Multiple States Multiple Regions 2019

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights January/February/March 2020 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2020

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights April/May/June 2020 (pdf)

(1.98 MB)

Multiple States Multiple Regions 2020

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights July/August/September 2020 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2020

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights October/November/December 2020 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2020

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights January/February/March 2021 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2021

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights April/May/June 2021 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2021

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights July/August/September 2021 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2021

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights Oct/Nov/Dec 2021 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2021

State and Tribal Response Program Highlights January/February/March 2022 (pdf)

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Multiple States Multiple Regions 2022

The Edge of Something Special: Williamsburg, VA (pdf)

(398.8 KB, 2023)

Virginia 3 2023

Common Success at Cooper Commons LLC: Grove City, PA (pdf)

(857.45 KB, July 2023)

Pennsylvania 3 2023

From Service Pumps to Commercial Hub: Greene County, PA (pdf)

(728.14 KB, 2024)

Pennsylvania 3 2024

Overbrook Environmental Education Center Becomes Community Hub: Philadelphia, PA (pdf)

(3.55 MB, 2024)

Pennsylvania 3 2024

Treasured Past, Innovative Future: Altavista, VA (pdf)

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Virginia 3 2023 Harvesting Arts and Culture From a Former Brownfield Iowa 7 2023 A Former Coal Mine Springs to Life West Virginia 3 2017 From Brownfields to Green: In Praise of Open Spaces Multiple States 9 2015 From Blight to Bright: Opening New Doors with Senior Housing in Dellwood, Missouri Missouri 7 2025 From Meatpacking Plant to Food Hub: A Brownfields Transformation in Fresno, CA California 9 2025