GUEST ARTICLE – America’s thousands of failing bridges are now receiving billions for long-delayed renovations and replacements As catastrophic storms proliferate, seven states plus DC celebrate winning $50 million to boost community climate resilience 35 grants totaling $14.9 million are awarded to restore wildlife habitats & improve water quality in the Delaware River watershed Colorado town celebrates completion of a parklet transformation project that will help revitalize historic downtown area This tourist region will soon be revitalized, thanks to the $9.5 million remediation of contamination at two old uranium mines 31 projects in 12 Vermont counties celebrate new funding from the state’s Community Recovery and Revitalization program Environmental Justice: Disadvantaged school and neighborhood in Dallas win $800,000 to remediate long-standing contamination Environmental Justice: $5 million investment will accelerate the restoration of American bison and their ecosystems on tribal lands Climate restoration means removing carbon, not just reducing new carbon. New ocean-based American tech just won $24 million. Few things kill a city faster than running out of water: major new investments in U.S. water infrastructure boost resilience & recycling 1300-acre paper mill in Louisiana being redeveloped into $2 billion green methanol production facility to power shipping fleet 45 projects to revitalize historic commercial districts in Virginia communities win Business District Resurgence grants Four revitalizing projects in Michigan win $5.6 million for brownfield redevelopment, including turning abandoned jail into a hotel This $22.8 million will accelerate women-led restoration projects on 1.5 million acres of two endangered landscapes in Africa The Nature Conservancy’s efforts to restore and reconnect Ohio’s Sandusky Bay are starting to pay off for people and wildlife This town lost thousands of jobs when its historic U.S. Naval Air Station closed in 2011. Now it’s a thriving redevelopment success. Local redevelopers are making a big impact on neighborhood revitalization and affordable housing in Detroit, Michigan The $45 million will advance coastal habitat restoration and climate resilience priorities of tribes and underserved communities 30 research teams win $20 million to develop technologies & data that boost restoration of forests, grasslands and watersheds This historic city is about to revitalized with a green new urban heart: a mixed-use redevelopment with healthy new connectivity The revitalization of downtown Ottawa, Ontario advances with the redevelopment of a huge area across from Parliament Hill Wind turbine blades only last 25 years. They are now helping to pedestrianize cities by being repurposed and reused as footbridges. This $37 million LEED-Gold affordable housing redevelopment revitalizes area and includes the adaptive reuse of a historic church Major redevelopment and revitalization is coming to two key properties in the African American heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Non-profit in Omaha, Nebraska shows how to revitalize neighborhoods sans displacement by renovating historic affordable housing This U.S. state’s visionary new $650 million program integrates downtown revitalization with redevelopment of affordable housing U.S. Forest Service continues its shift from maintaining tree farms to restoring natural forests with $16.2 million for tribal projects This U.S. state just formed innovative biochar-based climate resilience partnership with economic & forest restoration benefits Public-private partnership makes revitalizing investments in Baltimore’s small businesses to boost neighborhood economic resilience This ecological restoration project is now completing the largest-ever invasive rat eradication ever accomplished on an island
