Issue #139

News

Baton Rouge, Louisiana launches the redesign and renovation of their largest park, hoping it will help revitalize the city

A Midwest U.S. state just invested $6 million to help revitalize its economy by renovating the infrastructure at nine of its harbors

World’s largest ecological restoration and regenerative agriculture project receives over $14 billion to accelerate progress

In Arizona, $75 million ecological restoration of historic copper mine is completed decades early, but 30 years of monitoring lies ahead

24 projects to clean and restore streams, rivers & watersheds receive over $4.9 million from state’s “Growing Greener” program

750-acre, $100 million brightfields project to be this state’s first utility-scale solar array, revitalizing a toxic explosives factory site

Fort Atkinson State Historical Park receives $270,000 to revitalize visitor’s center and build historic wooden cargo ship replica

This state’s Fish & Wildlife agency has a new program to acquire old farmland in order to restore wetlands and revitalize fishing

Century-old Manhattan post office is reborn as a new $1.6 billion train station, replacing a treasure demolished by bad planning

A “restoration economy” company in Indiana spent 2020 restoring old coal mining sites and revitalizing former coal communities

State awards $9 million in tax credits to 7 historic downtown revitalization projects, leveraging $33 million in private investment

An 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 approved

Historic railway terminal is restored and redesigned as a mixed-use “Train Station in the Forest” to create an 86-acre urban oasis

Oyster buyback program revitalizes fishing communities in 7 U.S. states while rebuilding reefs and restoring shellfish populations

Bipartisan “STORM” bill passes U.S. Congress: will boost resilient infrastructure and catastrophe rebuilding capacity nationwide

EDA awards $2.7 million to the Buffalo Erie County Industrial Land Development Corp. to revitalize former Bethlehem Steel Plant site

Amazon’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 work

Philadelphia gets $2 million to turn old 40-acre arsenal into mixed-use plus $1 million to turn old concrete factory into public park

This South Carolina wetlands restoration project has received almost $2 million to improve wildlife habitat & boost biodiversity

A 235-acre redevelopment that’s revitalizing a derelict Baltimore waterfront leaps forward with $650 million in new financing

The spawning migration of endangered coho salmon is restored by the removal of a 100-year-old dam on a California golf course

This 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 housing

This community college’s construction class is helping to revitalize a small town’s main street by renovating a historic storefront

Longest multi-use state trail in U.S. opens, restoring historic sites, connecting 200 breweries & hoping to revitalize many towns

Hoping to revitalize a major five-mile corridor, Chicago launches a new planning study with significant public participation

20-year, 50-sq-mile watershed restoration project in Tennessee wins award as 2020’s most outstanding engineering achievement

Lightning of renewal hits same spot twice as equitable, transit-oriented redevelopment comes to historic, revitalized DC corridor