The benefits of redeveloping brownfields

When communities clean up and redevelop brownfields properties, they can:

• Stimulate a community's economy, create more jobs, and increase local tax base. 
• Provide healthy sites for community priorities such as affordable housing.
• Turn their community's perceived problem into an asset and improve their image. 
• Enable efficient land use and minimize the construction of new service infrastructure.
• Facilitate the resolution of environmental justice issues.
• Protect human and environmental health, and mitigate public health and safety concerns. 
• Provide opportunities for habitat restoration, parks, or other public spaces.