Issue #190 March 1, 2023

News

GUEST ARTICLE – This residential trend was born in Denmark, but cohousing is now revitalizing American neighborhoods

$39 million investment will boost resilience in the Miami area, such as by restoring a former golf course into a wetland park

Tiny New Jersey, America’s Superfund capital, is the big winner of new $1 billion investment in 122 grossly-contaminated industrial sites

Detroit’s historic, contaminated Studebaker automobile factory site is about to be cleaned & revitalized as much-needed housing

In Georgia, historic 28-acre quarry to be restored and transformed into new public park to celebrate early Black legislator

Canadian architects help revitalize an ugly old abandoned quarry into a gorgeous new 42-acre government cultural center

Resident-led non-profits & small communities in Wisconsin win $6.5 million to restore surface water health and boost resilience

$87 million to help retrofit Africa’s existing buildings for energy efficiency, renewal energy production & batteries for resilience

Four communities in Virginia win $1 million to revitalize their economies by cleaning and redeveloping their brownfield properties

America’s restoration economy gets a $10 million investment for reforestation nursery and native seed partnerships

Revitalization Reimagined: Westchester County, New York launches “Business FIRST Downtown Improvement Grant Program”

Detroit brownfield expert in newly-created role: boosting neighborhood recovery via commercial corridor revitalization

Pennsylvania State University professor wins a national award for his lifetime of work restoring wild turkey populations

Restoration Economy: $25 million investment advances resilient, reforestation-based economic revitalization in California

Here’s your chance to guide the development of a new national revitalization program for economically distressed U.S. communities

20 national, state & regional organizations call on Pennsylvania governor to revitalize downtowns via “active transportation”

This harmonious integration of tradition and science restores landscapes and revitalizes rural communities all across China

A small New Jersey township grows its economy and resilience as a contaminated paper mill site becomes a solar energy farm

University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems now offers Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellowships

RESTORATION ECONOMY: Local firm wins contract on massive revitalization of old riverside steelmaking site near Pittsburgh

In Texarkana, Texas, a grand, defunct 1925 hotel is repurposed and renovated into affordable housing to revitalize downtown

A highway is buried, while old public housing is redeveloped, pedestrianized & ecologically restored into a healthy new neighborhood

A famed whisky and a famed American artist team up to help restore the dwindling populations of Scotland’s famed salmon

In tiny Kenova, West Virginia, site of historic, asbestos-contaminated elementary school is cleaned and economically revitalized

In Colorado, this new solar farm is restoring native shortgrass prairie habitat while sequestering carbon to restore our climate

University abandons its 1970s sprawl campus to turn parking lots and vacant infill land into a regenerative downtown campus

Free technical assistance helps communities integrate affordable housing into equitable, transit-oriented revitalization projects

National Coastal Resilience Fund announces $140 million to restore America’s salt marshes, coral reefs and beach dunes

Mobile home parks are a vital, but ignored, component of affordable housing. This state has a new revitalization program for them.

The historic Garment District in downtown Manhattan wins $4.5 million dollars to support equitable economic revitalization