The Center for Creative Land Recycling is a non-profit that offers technical assistance and programs targeted at contaminated or underutilized site redevelopment. Our graduates return to their communities with new tools and resources, ready to tackle redevelopment. Additionally, CCLR provided catalytic policy leadership on two innovative funding programs in California: the Calreuse Lo
an and Grant Program and the Urban Infrastructure Grant Program. Combined, these programs allocated nearly $900 Million for brownfield cleanup and redevelopment with priority funding going to under-resourced communities. Finally, As the brownfield expert in California's land reuse program, CCLR helped communities obtain nearly $73 million in forgivable loans and grants for site assessment and cleanup. Projects receiving these funds will create more than 12,600 new residential units including significant affordable and special-needs housing, 60,000 square feet of retail, 818,000 square feet of commercial, and 1,500 acres of open space. PROGRAMS
• Technical Assistance: CCLR offers pro bono technical assistance to certain nonprofit developers, community-based groups, and municipalities for redevelopment projects. In addition to helping communities revitalize land, the objective of this program is to gain a better understanding of the conditions that lead to underutilized land and the barriers to brownfield redevelopment, particularly in under-served communities. We use these case studies to inform our programs and policy efforts in order to develop and implement solutions that can bring other redevelopment projects to completion. CCLR also offers fee-for-service consulting and technical assistance in support of land recycling and brownfield redevelopment efforts for a diverse range of groups. CCLR serves as a trusted advisor, facilitator, and project manager focusing on the environmental components of brownfield redevelopment.
• Workshops
Recycling land requires specialized knowledge and tools in order to manage complicated environmental issues. CCLR’s practical, interactive workshops provide project managers and stakeholders with the tools, techniques and resources required for remediating and redeveloping environmentally distressed properties. CCLR developed its training program after documenting a clear community need for education regarding the management of the technical, legal, regulatory, and financial hurdles that can impede the successful reuse of brownfields.
• Policy: CCLR draws upon its wealth of experience with redevelopment projects to inform policy research and advocate reforms with the goal to make land recycling an encouraged, economically-feasible pattern of development. CCLR promotes reform of state and local land use and development policies that help level the playing field between brownfields and greenfields, the undeveloped areas at the outskirts of metropolitan regions. CCLR provides leadership on land use initiatives at both the state and federal level that work toward creating a regulatory regime that meets the needs of communities and sensibly weighs risks and rewards. CCLR’s research program provides a scientific foundation to support our progressive policy initiatives.
