Feature Article Manhattan’s $7 billion climate resilience plan to protect Financial District & South Street Seaport might be model for cities worldwide Current News In South LA, an adaptive reuse project creates a Black-owned art gallery to elevate artists of color and help revitalize a neighborhoodAdaptive reuse turns old Chicago post office into America’s first garment manufacturing co-op run by immigrant and refugee womenTransit-oriented “LEED Gold” office & herbal medicine research center with huge green roof revitalizes defunct urban airport siteThis huge, historic warehouse complex has now been restored and reused to become a green, revitalized urban neighborhoodNational program awards $24.32 million to 27 projects that will regenerate derelict sites and buildings to revitalize rural downtownsPedestrian-friendly redevelopment restores historic buildings and revitalizes transit facilities to create new “front door” for cityLatino team turns vacant Chicago building & parking lot into $53.9 million affordable housing, incubator and cultural centerMonroe, Louisiana makes a major investment in downtown’s revitalized future, buying four vacant buildings for redevelopmentIn Alaska, a tribe helps demolish a dam that blocked their salmon for a century, thus revitalizing and de-engineering a riverAfter a tragic year of sea grass and manatee loss–plus pollution disasters–two political leaders announce plans to restore Tampa BayClimate resilience of coastal cities can be significantly improved without architects, engineers and grand, billion-dollar plans14 projects to restore British Columbia’s caribou populations win $1.65 million from the Caribou Habitat Restoration FundThree states introduce legislation to prevent the secret deals that devitalize communities in the name of “economic development”State’s oyster restoration program excels by integrating science, ecology, community engagement and economic revitalizationTurning a former university campus into a new urban neighborhood by repurposing, renewing & reconnecting historic buildingsAn ugly, defunct diesel power generating plant enjoys aesthetic, functional & spiritual resurrection as an urban heritage parkScotland discovers that they can restore their ecology by removing this invasive plant…while feeding their entire nationIn a win-win-win, DC Metro system partners with minority-owned firm to create transit-oriented affordable housing redevelopmentPennsylvania starts new year by funding 317 community revitalization projects with $70 million to restore streams, lakes and parksGovernor announces plan to revitalize her state’s university system and make it a global leader in equitable economic revitalizationAs human pollution smothers corals with algae, Florida researchers restore algae-eating sea urchins in order to restore reefsThe regenerative agriculture movement gains momentum with new nutrient density and carbon sequestration research partnershipRestoration Economy: Fifteen solar plants on former Virginia coal mines bringing $880 million and 4200 jobs to revive communitiesThe “Seattle Restored” program is launched to activate vacant downtown storefronts and support BIPOC artists & entrepreneursIn Louisiana, construction begins on the Coastal Restoration & Protection Authority’s largest-ever marsh restoration projectWaterfront Park gets $12 million donation: will replace Seattle’s ugly, badly-planned freeway with revitalizing public space60 economic revitalization partnerships across America win $1 billion in the EDA’s “Build Back Better Regional Challenge”13 oyster restoration projects win funding to advance research, education, tech and low-cost solutions to revive Chesapeake BayToo many land banks are demolition-happy: this one in Albany is renovating nine vacant buildings into new affordable housingCity redevelops wisely by integrating its $200 million climate resilience work with urban revitalization & infrastructure renewal