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Abandoned textile mills, gas stations, factories and warehouses blight large and small communities.
In addition to impacting the environment, these buildings inhibit economic growth and are often
disproportionately located in poor, minority community sectors.
While cleaning up the contamination that hampers redevelopment efforts may be the legal responsibility of
the private business owners who caused the contamination or who own the property, all too often local
governments must take the initiative to remediate and redevelop these sites.
Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) works with local governments to gather community
input, identify sites, assess contamination, prepare remediation plans and redevelop the properties.
CTC works with both rural communities and large cities
to identify and secure the funds needed to accomplish these critical
and often highly technical redevelopment tasks.
Laurinburg, NC
CTC assisted the rural North Carolina town in applying for federal funding and is currently managing the town’s
brownfields project. The key site targeted for redevelopment is an old abandoned hospital building, a
home to vagrants and a blight on a predominately residential area and neighboring elementary school.
Assessment activities have been completed and CTC
helped the City acquire the site, secure regulatory
protection and raise funding to promote redevelopment of
the site.
Charleston, SC
In another project, CTC helped the City of Charleston leverage federal funding to promote the redevelopment of
several large industrial sites in a blighted area of the city. In addition to managing this project for the
city, CTC has secured additional funding to establish a brownfields redevelopment revolving loan fund and a
job training program.
CTC is currently preparing for the 2005-2006 funding application round for the Environmental Protection Agency's
brownfields programs (www.epa.gov/brownfields). In the past,
we have helped communities who were previously unsuccessful in securing these grants to write winning proposals.
Contact us about your application or program to learn how we can leverage our
successful brownfields programs to aid your community.
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