GUEST ARTICLE: Developers, contractors & city tax bases grow via downtown revitalization Acres of surface parking & rundown office buildings are now affordable senior housing Universities worldwide start to take the lead on climate restoration and resilience Coastal Recovery: Bringing a damaged 4000-acre Delaware Bay wetland back to life To counter online shopping, revitalization of historic British high streets gets £62 million Cardiff to redevelop site with repurposed shipping containers as housing for homeless After tragedy, Mozambique aims to become a nation of climate-resilient infrastructure 30-acre ecological restoration of island brown pelican rookery in Louisiana is funded Ireland’s rural regeneration program will renovate outdoor recreation infrastructure Revitalizing the oldest pier in Wales—and downtown tourism—to be powered by birds At University of Michigan, state’s oldest observatory to get $10 million renovation Resilient Coastal Regeneration: Size matters when restoring vital seagrass beds Burmese star tortoise restored from the edge of extinction to over 15,000 individuals How adaptive reuse revived a South Carolina town that was gassed almost to extinction Atlanta, Georgia seeks ideas for redeveloping recently-closed, 70-acre downtown rail yard Families thrive by conserving & reforesting Guatemala’s 5-million-acre Biosphere Reserve This new tool boosts resilience by helping you integrate nature into your city Nespresso launches resilience program to revitalize coffee-producing rural regions New reports and guidelines to advance resilient, human-centered disaster recovery University of Denver team wins $25,000 to retrofit a house to be net-zero energy $3.2 million will renew or replace abandoned homes to revitalize 3 Delaware communities Affordable residential neighborhood arises, with transit, on an old 72-acre Ford factory Tax incentives masquerading as “economic development” undermine state economies Successful ecological restoration is people-centric, conveying indigenous land tenure A revitalizing plan emerges for repurposing, renewing & reconnecting Governors Island Grand new entrance revealed for New York City’s redesigned & redeveloped Penn Station $10 million will help restore historic mine sites and revitalize Virginia’s coal country 3 governors agree to restore the Delaware River watershed into a national model Historic TWA Flight Center is restored and repurposed as new $200 million TWA Hotel HUD’s $85 million is expected to attract $620 million to revitalize 3 distressed communities Historic Erie Canal to be repurposed, renewed & reconnected for resilience & revitalization The $4.5 billion “Restore Pennsylvania” program hopes to revitalize old steel towns Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario receives $600,000 to help revitalize its downtown core Research: Climate crisis necessitates use of herbicide & fertilizer to restore rainforest? Perth, Australia’s rebirth accelerates with redevelopment of 103-year-old power station UN: restoration insurance and ecosystem investments needed for climate resilience
