Feature Article Revitalization of a decayed Caribbean capital will renew infrastructure, fix traffic, boost quality of life and unlock private investment Current News Baton Rouge, Louisiana launches the redesign and renovation of their largest park, hoping it will help revitalize the cityA Midwest U.S. state just invested $6 million to help revitalize its economy by renovating the infrastructure at nine of its harborsWorld’s largest ecological restoration and regenerative agriculture project receives over $14 billion to accelerate progressIn Arizona, $75 million ecological restoration of historic copper mine is completed decades early, but 30 years of monitoring lies ahead24 projects to clean and restore streams, rivers & watersheds receive over $4.9 million from state’s “Growing Greener” program750-acre, $100 million brightfields project to be this state’s first utility-scale solar array, revitalizing a toxic explosives factory siteFort Atkinson State Historical Park receives $270,000 to revitalize visitor’s center and build historic wooden cargo ship replicaThis state’s Fish & Wildlife agency has a new program to acquire old farmland in order to restore wetlands and revitalize fishingCentury-old Manhattan post office is reborn as a new $1.6 billion train station, replacing a treasure demolished by bad planningA “restoration economy” company in Indiana spent 2020 restoring old coal mining sites and revitalizing former coal communitiesState awards $9 million in tax credits to 7 historic downtown revitalization projects, leveraging $33 million in private investmentAn unusual partnership is restoring one of the U.S. South’s iconic forests, destroyed by centuries of unsustainable logging practices£15 million landscape-scale project to boost climate resilience by restoring an estuary and coastal flood plain has been approvedHistoric railway terminal is restored and redesigned as a mixed-use “Train Station in the Forest” to create an 86-acre urban oasisOyster buyback program revitalizes fishing communities in 7 U.S. states while rebuilding reefs and restoring shellfish populationsBipartisan “STORM” bill passes U.S. Congress: will boost resilient infrastructure and catastrophe rebuilding capacity nationwideEDA awards $2.7 million to the Buffalo Erie County Industrial Land Development Corp. to revitalize former Bethlehem Steel Plant siteAmazon’s $2 billion investment in affordable housing takes shape in Virginia, to boost the revitalizing impact of its new headquarters€15.4 million to help rural Irish communities recover via historic restoration, adaptive reuse, biodiversity parks and remote workPhiladelphia gets $2 million to turn old 40-acre arsenal into mixed-use plus $1 million to turn old concrete factory into public parkThis South Carolina wetlands restoration project has received almost $2 million to improve wildlife habitat & boost biodiversityA 235-acre redevelopment that’s revitalizing a derelict Baltimore waterfront leaps forward with $650 million in new financingThe spawning migration of endangered coho salmon is restored by the removal of a 100-year-old dam on a California golf courseThis 3.5-acre storage site to be transformed into $600 million transit-oriented, mixed-use project close to downtown Los Angeles$10 million goes to five U.S. non-profit organizations to support rural community revitalization and affordable housingThis community college’s construction class is helping to revitalize a small town’s main street by renovating a historic storefrontLongest multi-use state trail in U.S. opens, restoring historic sites, connecting 200 breweries & hoping to revitalize many townsHoping to revitalize a major five-mile corridor, Chicago launches a new planning study with significant public participation20-year, 50-sq-mile watershed restoration project in Tennessee wins award as 2020’s most outstanding engineering achievementLightning of renewal hits same spot twice as equitable, transit-oriented redevelopment comes to historic, revitalized DC corridor