Feature Article Redeveloping this post-industrial area will revitalize city with housing while restoring local heritage, watershed and biodiversity Current News GUEST ARTICLE — Creating Resilient Receiving Communities: How Will We Relocate the Climate-Displaced within North America?The historic, 101-year-old Egyptian Theatre, site of the first Hollywood premiere, reopens after $70 million restoration by NetflixHistoric 1929 Staten Island theater reopens after a $4.5 million restoration funded by Downtown Revitalization InitiativeThe World Economic Forum promotes a “restoration economy” cluster in Amazonian Colombia to regenerate economy and ecology$65 million adaptive reuse and redevelopment project will revitalize Troy, NY’s downtown with groceries and affordable housingA $14.3 million green restoration of the historic 1875 “Old Main” building is coming to the University of Colorado – Boulder campusOnce a poster child of urban revitalization, Baltimore’s declining Inner Harbor gets $67.5 million from the state to be re-revitalizedEconomic revitalization grants totaling $53 million awarded to 60 organizations across U.S. to support entrepreneurs and innovationChicago’s future gets brighter and healthier as $336 million will replace 30,000 toxic lead water pipes, while creating 2700 new jobsRestoration Economy: 41 port renovation projects across the U.S. win $653 million to help revitalize local and national economiesPuerto Rico to lower bills while boosting energy independence, storm resilience & air quality with $440 million of solar panelsBaltimore joins global trend of making urban rivers and harbors swimmable and fishable with upcoming “Harbor Splash” eventMaine and Wisconsin are exploring whether potatoes will be the next big thing in the global regenerative agriculture trendTexas State University wins $1,150,000 to help small, urban, minority & veteran farmers and ranchers switch to regenerative agricultureBlighted set of derelict garages is adaptively reused to revitalize neighborhood by supporting young local entrepreneursRevitalization project in Arizona aims to return the neighborhoods surrounding a university to their middle-class rootsIn Veracruz, Mexico, the city of Xalapa is boosting its resilience and water security by restoring a protective, reforested greenbeltInnovative community redevelopment models will reuse and revitalize toxic 5-acre site of defunct, century-old incinerator in HoustonNext to Harvard University, redevelopment of this old industrial site is creating a green, walkable neighborhood connected to river$3,339,177 investment helps Massachusetts communities and non-profits restore clean water & healthy, resilient coastal ecosystemsSeven communities see revitalization on the horizon, thanks to $4 million from the Vermont Brownfields Revitalization FundColorado wins $10 million to remediate and restore abandoned mines and economically revitalize former coal mining communitiesCoral reef restoration in the United States takes a major step forward as reefs are officially declared “national infrastructure”A big step forward for the 27.5-mile Joe Louis Greenway, a recreational loop to connect and help revitalize 23 Detroit neighborhoodsFarm-based ecological restoration projects in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin win $52 million to boost wildlifeMarine protected areas no longer protect: to conserve biodiversity, they now need to be redesigned to boost climate resilienceAs DC’s apartment price-fixing cartel shows, cooperative model for affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization makes sense71 water infrastructure renovation projects give Michigan cities a brighter future due to $933 million in low-interest revolving loansUnited Nations selects Seattle, Washington as the only American city to qualify as a global “role model” for ecosystem restoration1800 leaders at Eighth Asia-Pacific Urban Forum hear urgent call for collaborative, sustainable urban redevelopment