Building Upon Large-Scale Brownfield Investments to Rejuvenate a Community

Wednesday, August 18 at 2:00 p.m.

Participants of this live webinar are eligible for 1.5 AICP CM credits.

Join U.S. EPA’s Brownfields/Land Revitalization and Office of Community Revitalization staff for a series of informative stories from communities of color near Chicago and Boston, as part of a six-part Smart Growth Network webinar series, Learning from (and Leaning on) Local Leaders to Revitalize African American Neighborhoods, beginning in August and running through the end of the year. The Maryland Department of Planning is hosting the series on behalf of the Smart Growth Network.  For information on this and other future webinars, visit smartgrowth.org.

Session 1:

The series launches August 18, with the first session, Building Upon Large-Scale Brownfield Investments to Rejuvenate a Community, as Kathy Brown and Edward Lewis, formerly of the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development,, and Abraham Lacy, Executive Director of the Far South Community Development Corporation, explore the roles of local leadership and community engagement in building upon an investment in brownfields to remove blight, create jobs, and transform the neighborhood to benefit residents with much-needed community amenities.

Find out more and register for this free webinar via the link below.