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After decades of work, the first housing is breaking ground on the site of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The jobs, housing, and investment that this project will bring to this environmental justice community is immeasurable...

With the construction of 196 residential lofts and a much-needed community daycare facility, this $80 million LEED Gold building on a former brownfield in San Francisco has brought over 150 jobs to the neighborhood...

Union Point Park is a former industrial manufacturing site that is now a beautiful neighborhood landscape on the Oakland waterfront. The park exemplifies how public-private partnerships and environmentally-friendly initiatives can produce resources...

Habitat for Humanity's project in the Sobrante Park Neighborhood of East Oakland turned a former junk yard into 54 affordable family homes. Watch this story of hope and transformation that traces the inspiring work of the community...

For nearly a hundred years, the downtown Sacramento Railyard was a vibrant, prosperous place, but by the 1970s the site had become a neglected eyesore in the heart of the city. Now the old buildings are about to come back to life again...

Once a thriving thoroughfare, Route 66 was deserted for faster freeways leaving abandoned gas stations and economic strife in its wake. The EPA Brownfields Program and state and local initiatives are addressing the issue...

This Route 66 featurette spotlights the brownfield redevelopment efforts in Flagstaff, Arizona. The city used federal funding to transform a brownfield into a bustling bus transfer station in the heart of downtown...