Brownfields Redevelopment Program

The Brownfields Redevelopment Program empowers communities, local governments and other stakeholders in economic development to work together to prevent, assess, clean up and reuse brownfields. A brownfield site is property which may be complicated by actual or perceived environmental contamination during the expansion, redevelopment or reuse of the property. The reuse of property is an important component of sound land use policy. Productive reuse of urban land helps prevent the premature development of farmland, open space and natural areas, and reduces the public cost for installing new water, sewer and highway infrastructure. The redevelopment of brownfield sites continues to gain momentum in Florida and across the nation...more