The CDFA Brownfields Financing Toolkit provides communities with an easy-to-use, best practices resource on brownfields redevelopment. The toolkit approach to development finance brings together the best of these financing concepts and techniques to provide a comprehensive response to capital and resource needs. This guide is intended to provide information to communities interested in identifying potential financing tools for the remediation and redevelopment of contaminated brownfield sites.

The Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA) requests proposals from finance firms and individuals with development finance expertise to assist targeted communities with brownfields redevelopment financing.

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation intends to make brownfields development a top priority in 2015, according to The Legislative Gazette. During a budget hearing, the commissioner of the DEC, Joseph Martens, further discussed the changes planned by Governor Cuomo to the state's Brownfields Cleanup Program.

Communities in West Virginia can now apply for brownfield technical assistance grants to help redevelop brownfield sites, according to The State Journal. The Northern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center will provide the technical assistance to BAD buildings (Brownfields, Abandoned, Dilapidated).

According to the Dayton Daily News, the brownfield project that received $4.2 million in state and local funding has been finalized after a five-year process. City officials stated about 140 new jobs were created in Urbana, OH as a result of the project.

The CDFA Brownfields Technical Assistance Program is funded by a grant from the U.S. EPA to provide assistance to communities throughout the country that are looking to finance the redevelopment of brownfield sites.

The CDFA Brownfields Financing Resource Center is a one-stop hub for all of the resources, reports, headlines, and projects that CDFA collects and publishes related to brownfields finance. Find links to resource tags, technical assistance, original research, upcoming webcasts, reference guides, daily headlines, and more.

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This paper from the Northeast-Midwest Institute provides case examples of brownfield financing tools that local governments have used to leverage private dollars, improve the developer's financial position, reduce lender risk, or fund property improvements needed for redevelopment to proceed.

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