Norton Healthcare unveiled plans for a $70 million hospital in the Parkland neighborhood, the first new medical center for Louisville's West End in decades. The investment will transform a 20-acre brownfield site into an Opportunity Campus that will house Goodwill's headquarters operation, a collection of local social service agencies, and a $70 million hospital operated by Norton Healthcare.

The Michigan International Technology Center Redevelopment Authority (MITC) plans to construct a 65,952-square-foot commercial flex space development in the townships of Plymouth and Northville at the site of the former Detroit House of Corrections. The MSF approved a $15.6 million in state tax capture to alleviate site brownfield conditions, making it suitable for redevelopment.

Since 2000, toxic tours in the Chicago neighborhood of Little Village have evolved from talking about pollution, to now include systemic racism, policing, and mass incarceration. These tours highlight transformed brownfield and superfund sites, highlighting sites turned into recreational spaces that serve the community.

$1 billion for the federal Great Lakes restoration program from the bipartisan infrastructure bill will speed the cleanup of nine damaged areas in Michigan to completion by 2030. The Michigan areas to be cleaned up, including the Detroit, Rouge, and St. Clair rivers and River Raisin, are among 25 in the lakes region designated as "areas of concern" by the Environmental Protection Agency due to damage caused by industrial pollution, development, and agriculture runoff.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan laid out a vision of close collaboration with local governments on brownfield redevelopment, stressing that the agency will lean heavily on states, cities, and tribes to identify areas needing cleanup and to decide how best to return them to productive use. Regan also said the EPA will "significantly expand" its technical assistance to communities, targeting those that haven't gotten funding in the past.

The Murphy Administration is making it easier to identify once contaminated and blighted properties that present unique opportunities for economic development and environmental improvement. The Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping application has been enhanced, creating a Brownfields Inventory mapping layer that makes valuable information about brownfields sites easily accessible, helping identify brownfields with redevelopment potential.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced this month that 19 organizations across the country were selected to receive a total of $3.8 million, and RecycleForce is the only recipient in Indiana. The funding is part of EPA's Brownfields job training grants, which offer residents of historically polluted and neglected communities an opportunity to gain skills and certifications needed to secure environmental work in their communities.

The Alaska Forum, Inc. will receive $200,000 in Brownfields grant funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to train and place students in environmental jobs. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a better America and that means new, good-paying jobs. The Brownfields Job Training grants will prepare over 1,000 individuals for new environmental jobs.

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