Redeveloping brownfields : a different conversation

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SESSION TWO: THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 24

Beyond Brownfields

William “Beau” Mills,

Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Administrator, United States Environmental Protection

Agency, Washington, DC 24

Oregon’s Jewel Shows How to Build Sustainable Cities

Don Gardner, Development Services Manager, Portland Office of Transportation,

City of Portland, Oregon 25

Putting Brownfields Back to Work

Lorrie Louder, Director of Industrial Development, Saint Paul Port Authority, Saint Paul, Minnesota

26

The South Buffalo Project

Kevin Greiner, Executive Vice President, Buffalo Enterprise Development Corporation, Buffalo,

New York 27

Buffalo’s New Tomato Fields: Greenhouse Crops Lead the Way

Alfred D. Price, Associate Professor, Department of Planning, School of Architecture and Planning,

State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 29

SESSION THREE: THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE:

A POST-INDUSTRIAL MODEL 31

The Expo 2000 Project Sabine Brustmann, Project Manager, Expo 2000 Sachsen Anhalt, Germany

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Reconnecting Ecology, Economy and Community

Pablo Ubieta, Director General, RIA 2000, Bilbao, Spain 32

Planning for a Revitalized Bagnoli: A Former Coastal Industrial Area

Giovanni Dispoto, City Architect, Naples, Italy 34

The Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam: A Park for the 21st Century

Dr. Evert Verhagen, Project Manager, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 35

DAY TWO: OPENING REMARKS 37

Dr. Stuart Smith, Chair, National Round Table on the Environment and Economy, Canada 37

SESSION FOUR: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE: BRINGING PEOPLE, IDEAS, AND

RESOURCES TOGETHER 39

Mobilizing Reinvestment in the Port Area through Strategic Environmental Management

Erkki Pukonnen, Chief Executive Officer, City of Toronto Economic Development Corporation

(TEDCO) 39

Bringing People back to the Waterfront

James Hoffman, President, Cobourg Harbour Development Corporation 40

Wayne DeVeau, Director of Community Services, Town of Cobourg 42

Begin with the End in Sight

Mark Conway, Head of Strategic Services, Dillon Consulting Limited, Toronto 43

Breathing New Life into Heritage Sites

Don Loucks, Principal, Hotson Bakker Architects, Toronto 44

SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION: LESSONS FROM OUR “DIFFERENT CONVERSATION” 47

Charles Bartsch,

Senior Policy Analyst, Northeast Midwest Institute, Washington, DC 47

APPENDIX 1

Setting the Scene for Investment in Brownfields: The International Public Policy Context A1

Teresa Salamone, J.D., Environmental Consultant

APPENDIX 2

The Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam: A Park for the 21st Century A18

Dr. Evert Verhagen, Project Manager, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

APPENDIX 3

Symposium Participants A20