GUEST ARTICLE: Huge, dead factory will green, expand and revitalize downtown Indianapolis Rwanda’s “killer lake” green energy initiative will restore climate, forests & public safety 53 years after the music died, Buddy Holly will revitalize his Lubbock, Texas home town Michigan launches new statewide program to boost revitalizing power of local land banks Hull, England is transforming parking lot on historic site into downtown revitalization City partners with two British Columbia First Nations to restore river and watershed Feds help California renew infrastructure to reclaim and reuse more of their water New Trend? Some post-industrial cities are revitalizing via clean re-industrialization For one company, the Opportunity Zones program allows them to do more of the same Construction of 1200 acres of coastal marsh is completed in southwest Louisiana Kansas honors company for ecological restoration of old 640-acre quarry In the global Restoration Economy, slum demolition gives way to slum renovation Ecologically restored marsh in Toledo, Ohio wins governor’s award for best public park Recovery of island’s threatened seabirds and plants advances with invasive rat removal Historic Palais du Commerce in Rennes to be renovated and reconnected to neighborhood Buffalo NY students escape cold and restore 3300 native Louisiana plants in one day Junkyard Dogs: Queens, NYC brownfield to be redeveloped as a full-service animal shelter Velodrome site of 1972 Summer Olympics to be redeveloped as multipurpose sports arena In Ireland, 66 town center revitalization projects are awarded a total of €62 million Wuhan, China ecologically restores a toxic landfill into a revitalizing green public space Our planet & rural economies need a billion acres of regenerative agriculture…now Why don’t more cities have paid, full-time neighborhood revitalization fellowships? Landscape restoration reduces air pollution of cattle urine to help restore our climate European Union gives climate resilience planning in the Caribbean a $35 million boost Planning students turn Cornwall, Ontario into living lab of brownfields remediation UN launches International Year of Indigenous Languages to revitalize endangered cultures Post-industrial heart of Galway, Ireland to get €200M revitalization as innovation hub London schools get £1.27 million to help restore air quality via green infrastructure Louisiana proposes $783 million to fund 230 coastal restoration projects in 2020 Historic 1927 Sears warehouse in Memphis is reborn as a “vertical urban village” Adaptive use of old mines for storing green energy could revitalize Michigan communities Restoring the environment while connecting Dallas and Houston with high-speed rail Thomas Jefferson’s magnificent academic architecture gets a magnificent restoration Seattle hopes to repurpose closed Army base into a new, affordable residential community How to strengthen economic resilience in distressed Appalachian communities Ontario’s Peel Region renews its strategy to revitalize communities and reduce poverty
