How to Use brownfield in a Sentence

brownfield

noun

• The deal marks the latest step in the transformation of the 700-acre brownfield.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 14 June 2017
• Anamet is a good example of the challenges of the state’s urban brownfields.
  — Michael Puffer, courant.com, 10 June 2019
• There simply aren’t enough brownfields to reach the full needs of the energy transition.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
• The future home of the jail and commit resources to the first steps of remediating this brownfield.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Apr. 2022
• Detroit City Council voted 8-1 in March in favor of the brownfields.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2023
• But both take large hits in the budget, including brownfields, which would see a 37% cut in EPA funding to manage the program and a 30% drop in grants to states.
  — Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 22 May 2017
• The aim is to transform what is a derelict brownfield site on the edge of the River Mersey into a thriving new waterfront neighbourhood.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The surge is the result of years of hard work: the completion of the $4 million streetscape, brownfield remediation, full tax abatements and more.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 16 June 2020
• The bill includes funding to clean up Superfund and brownfield sites, reclaim abandoned mine lands, and more.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2021
• Maria Abney, who lives on Egyptian Trail, said other sites, such as closed landfills and brownfields, would be more suitable.
  — Susan Demar Lafferty, Daily Southtown, 14 June 2018
• Low-income people and people of color, Veal said, often live on brownfield sites.
  — Anne Snabes, The Indianapolis Star, 7 July 2020
• Michigan and Church is now approved for $16 million in local and state-level brownfield tax captures over 28 years.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2021
• The city is using tax capture funds and brownfield redevelopment funds to help.
  — Freep.com, 13 Feb. 2021
• But going from brownfields to greenfields is nothing other cities haven't already done.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 25 Dec. 2017
• The bill would provide $21 billion to clean up Superfund and brownfield sites, reclaim abandoned mine land and cap orphaned gas wells, according to the White House.
  — Stephanie Bailey, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• The proposal also includes details for cleanup of brownfield sites.
  — Lara Korte, WSJ, 18 June 2018
• The Michigan Strategic Fund is expected to take up the brownfield plan at its July 27 meeting, city officials said.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2021
• The report showed most of state’s brownfield incentive programs had not reached job goals during a two-year period ending in 2015.
  — Mary Shanklin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2017
• The last two years have been spent remediating the brownfield site, which was home of a diesel power generating plant for the city until 1958, Rinehart said.
  — Kyle Arnold, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The idea was to get longstanding, idle, polluted brownfield sites back into productive use, for the economy and state tax rolls.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2020
• Modernizing and digitalizing brownfield sites may seem like a recipe for downtime, but that’s no longer the case.
  — Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• Lake Sandy Jo is a superfund site, which carries even more risk and liability than a brownfield.
  — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2022
• The state’s brownfield remediation programs have put urban land back in use.
  — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2022
• Gould agrees that other areas should be considered for solar projects before farmland, like brownfields, rights-of-way and warehouse roofs.
  — Izzy Ross, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2023
• Building the new jail, whether or not to build it on, on a toxic brownfield that requires a lot of remediation or to renovate the current facility.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 May 2022
• The city will also reduce development review fees by as much as $1.5 million, as part of a brownfield incentive program.
  — Mary Shanklin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• The health fund also invests in greenfield and brownfield projects unlike standard private equity funds and so the timing of the deployment of capital is less predictable, Abraaj said.
  — Arif Sharif, Bloomberg.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• That junkyard was a brownfield that need substantial clean-up and remediation.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 16 May 2018
• Some villagers have taken to fencing them off and dumping rubble on them in order to keep the buffaloes away and ease future planning applications by making the sites appear to be brownfield.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• Used together, the brownfield and enterprise tax credits would wipe away nearly all the property taxes owed on new developments for a decade.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 20 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024