GUEST ARTICLE – Plywood Plague Cure: How to reduce “blighting effect” of vacant buildings Apalachicola, FL wants to boost affordable housing by restoring historic homes Minnesota grouse travel to restored habitat in Wisconsin to revitalize local population Riverfront park is key to Glasgow, Scotland’s being reborn as the next great world city The surprising renaissance of Boston’s dangerous downtown “Combat Zone” Parisian architect uses parasites to beautify, green & renew ugly, inefficient old buildings Native New Zealand robin reintroduced as part of $24 million ecological restoration A non-profit and a water utility partner to restore a Santa Rosa, California wetland A green, people-centric, 40-acre, $3.5 billion heart for car-choked downtown Bangkok Private landowners see “a future for America” in wildlife habitat restoration Mexico City will be World Design Capital in 2018, to honor innovative redevelopment 1100-acre West Virginia brownfield will come back to life thanks to Canadian firm Ironic Reuse: Aristocrat’s mansion is repurposed as affordable housing in Bronx Fearing another rip-off, St. Louis votes for smart, revitalizing transit over new stadium $88.1 million renovation and redevelopment coming to Melbourne’s historic State Library The Great Canadian Butterflyway Project aims to restore pollinators nationwide Regeneration of a distillery’s brownfield in Glasgow will be powered by a “wind forest” Sydney waterfront redevelopment is transit-oriented, carbon-neutral and water-positive Telluride’s historic sandstone warehouse to be restored and repurposed as arts center Durham non-profit creates revitalization without gentrification via creative reuse 27-year-old British woman turns brownfield in an empty reservoir into thriving eco-lodge How to turn neighborhoods into local hubs of resilience during tough political times Kenya to restore an area the size of Denmark to boost agricultural productivity Waldorf Astoria New York announces team for $1 billion restoration and revitalization 37 acres of failed aquaculture ponds turned into mangrove park, restoring local fishery Florida county boasts a Neighborhood Preservation and Revitalization Division Non-profit funds $15 million transformation of downtown Dallas parking lot into park BC community land trust boosts local socio-economic resilience via affordable housing Perth revitalizes a street by greening it, and by repurposing a car lane for pedestrians Istanbul’s design for new park uses nature conservation to enhance urban revitalization Revitalization advances for 14 underutilized riverfront acres in downtown Philadelphia Bon Secours renovates vacant buildings and helps revitalize “The Wire” neighborhood In 10 years, light rail has drawn $billions in redevelopment to Charlotte neighborhoods A new rewilding coalition aims to strengthen ecological restoration throughout Europe Firm repurposes another historic Pittsburgh building after 1st factory-to-lofts success 70-acre, $132M park to revitalize downtown Oklahoma City and reconnect it to river Business incubator is renovating and reusing historic building to revitalize Flint, Michigan Vermont dairy entrepreneurs repurpose and restore historic barns to revitalize economy A new breed of English churchgoer finds salvation in local urban regeneration Philadelphia Museum of Art launches $525 million renovation & redesign by Frank Gehry 250-acre agricultural district revitalizes downtown Shanghai & reconnects it to river Ecological restoration of Lehua Is., Hawai‘i to proceed with eradication of invasive rats Shanghai historic area to be revitalized via mixed-use redevelopment of vacant 12 acres Nova Scotia gives Lunenburg twice the $$$ it asked for to restore historic academy $120 million revitalization of neighborhoods near Montreal’s Jacques-Cartier Bridge