BACK TO THE BREWERY — A Guest Article by Douglas Martin Privately-funded arena caps 2 decades of revitalization for San Francisco district Restoring beavers to undo (some of) the ecological damage of climate change 7 railway stations in Chennai, India to be renovated and redeveloped As Wyoming’s economy crashes, Casper is on the verge of downtown revitalization Major urban park in St. Louis undergoing renovation and ecological restoration Revitalizing Canada’s economy via $20B in green, social and transit infrastructure WonderBeer: Microbrewery to revitalize old Wonderbread factory & neighborhood 6 federal agencies help 27 communities boost revitalization via local food systems Solar Highways: France repurposes roads as renewable energy infrastructure Greening/beautifying schoolyards and reconnecting them to neighborhoods Neighbors crowdfund blight removal to boost neighborhood revitalization 35 years of successful immigrant-driven revitalization in Roxbury, Massachusetts Restorative Education: 11th-grade students restore wetland meadow Restoration is coming to the forests of New Mexico’s Taos Valley watershed Long-vacant historic building in Dayton, Ohio to be reused for affordable housing Historic Old Montreal and Old Port being revitalized prior to city’s 375th birthday Reuse of vacant church as cafe just one example of Dayton, Oregon’s rebirth “Restoration craze” hits downtown Woodland, California as it revitalizes Massive redevelopment of downtown Ottawa to fix “boneheaded urban planning” Beautifying a city while revitalizing the lives of the homeless in Cambodia Land Rover employees’ new job: Restoring what their grandfathers built Second revitalization underway for parking lot-plagued avenue in Calgary Brits to revive derelict historic hotel in revitalized Los Angeles downtown Will new connector heal the scar of a badly-planned highway, or make it worse? Fish-powered revitalization coming to a distressed Chattanooga neighborhood? Irish activists hope to restore famous medieval abbey and revitalize tourism £1 billion residential, railway & studio-based regeneration coming to Purfleet, UK Jamaican leader: Urban regeneration must partner with the poor, not displace them Abandoned 65-acre Congoleum factory to be remediated and redeveloped in New Jersey New £100 million green community arises on a 30-acre brownfield in Derby, England New Orleans’ Chief Resilience Officer calls for a Louisiana restoration economy How two Australians are restoring a historic sulky from a pile of metal Kofi Annan endorses massive reforestation across Africa 1000-year-old Italian castle with racy history is restored and reborn Bath revitalizes by repurposing & renewing historic buildings & reconnecting to river Stockholm’s impressive, citizen-guided waterfront revitalization program Redevelopers reimbursed for brownfield cleanup from revitalized tax revenues Regeneration veteran to lead revitalization of Aberdeen, Scotland’s downtown Historic Lansing school to be redeveloped into affordable and senior housing Ogdensburg, NY tries to recover from urban planning disaster of 50 years ago Urban river restoration and riverfront revitalization toolkit Edmonton wins sustainability award for Brownfields Redevelopment Grant Program Historic Rockefeller house renewed and repurposed as Montessori School Ontario town & restorative developer agree on redevelopment of paper mill Calgary mayor decides to stop subsidizing sprawl so redevelopment can grow Revitalization project to redevelop long-vacant 57-acre coastal site in Cannes 3 historic theater restorations that have helped revitalize Birmingham, Alabama
