The Institute has been particularly active in documenting best practices in the area of federal, state, and local brownfields incentives. Northeast and Midwest states generally have a strong interest in brownfields incentives because of the prevalence of abandoned manufacturing plants and the need to re-position those vacated sites to accommodate productive new uses. The Institute also provides an advisory role to states and localities that are actively reviewing their brownfields incentives (see: Case Study of State Incentives for the State of Iowa.)

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• Local

Federal Brownfields Incentive Programs

• Federal Program Summary Chart- Programs to assist Brownfields Redevelopment in Disadvantaged Communities
• Guide to Federal Brownfields Programs (2005)- Prepared for the US EPA co-authored with SRA International
• Montgomery Park: A Model for Using HUD 108 for Brownfields Development (January 2007)
• Federal Family of Brownfield Funds (Presentation, November, 2005)
• Brownfields Federal Tax Incentive (Presentation, November, 2005)
• Life after the Grant, Phase II - EPA Brownfields Assistance (January, 2004)
  This report examines the impact of brownfield grants and describes the successes and challenges of the local brownfield programs these grants support.
• Role of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Brownfields Redevelopment (March, 2003)
• Guide to Federal Brownfields Programs (2005) – Prepared for U.S. EPA co-authored with SRA International

State Brownfields Incentive Programs

• The Cleanup War Chest: State Bond Financing for Environmental Initiatives and Brownfields Redevelopment
• State Brownfield Financing Tools and Strategies (April 2005) - A best practices analysis of state incentives
• State Brownfields Tax Credits – Summary chart (October, 2008)
• Case Study of State Incentives: Proposals to Make Strategic Investments in Brownfields Redevelopment
• State-facilitated Tax Increment Financing for Brownfields Redevelopment -- Excerpt from full report (July, 2007)
• State Brownfields Tax Incentives (October 2006)
• State Brownfield Planning Assessment and Cleanup Programs (April 2006)
• State Brownfields Targeted Financial Assistance (April 2006)
• State Brownfield Financing Tools and Strategies (April 2005)
• State Brownfield Innovations-- Presentation (November 2005)
• State Brownfields and Voluntary Response Programs (EPA, 2005)
• Using the Clean Water State Revolving Fund for Brownfields and USTfields (2002)
• EPA's Link to State Brownfields Program

Local Brownfields Incentives and Tax Increment Financing

Tax Increment Financing Series

• Large-scale Brownfields Sustainable Tax Increment Financing Projects (December 2008)
• Using Tax Increment Financing for Brownfields Redevelopment (October 2008)
• Tax Increment Financing and Brownfields Redevelopment-- Presentation at the National Brownfields Conference (May, 2008)
• State-facilitated Tax Increment Financing for Brownfields Redevelopment (excerpt from full report, July, 2007)
• Tax Increment Financing and Brownfields Development -- Presentation (July, 2007)

Links to state programs that facilitate TIF for brownfields redevelopment:

• Michigan, Brownfields Redevelopment Authorities
• Connecticut, Brownfields Redevelopment Authority
• Wisconsin, Environmental Remediation Tax Incremental Finance Program
• Pennsylvania, Tax Increment Financing Guarantee Program

Links to mega-brownfields projects financed with TIF:

• Atlanta, GA - Atlantic Station
• Denver, CO- Gates Rubber
• Yonkers, NY - Struever Fidelco Capelli (SFC)
• Bridgeport, CT - Steel Point Harbor

• An article in New West Magazine highlighted three western state brownfields projects that are using TIF as a key financing element:  Old Sawmill District, Missoula, Montana; The Linen District, Boise, Idaho, and the Cherokee-Denver’s redevelopment of the Gates Rubber plant. All three projects have successfully combined financing from the EPA Brownfields Program with local TIF financing.
• Another community-altering project with heavy use of TIF is the $1.2 billion Bridgeport, Connecticut Steel Point project.  The financing includes up to $190 million in TIF funding.

• Michigan’s heralded brownfields financing programs, which are designed to work with TIF through the local Brownfields Redevelopment Authorities, have run out of funds from the 1998 Clean Michigan bond issue.  State officials are considering a new environmental bond issue.

• Local Brownfield Financing Tools:  Structures and Strategies for Spurring Cleanup and Redevelopment (October 2006)
• Innovative Local Financing (Presentation)
• Gateway South, Creative Local Financing Spurs Sustainable Development (January 2007)