Verdantas Experts to Address Challenges and Creativity in Brownfield Redevelopment as Part of Educational Programming
Brownfields 2022 features over 120 panels, roundtables, and topic talks where attendees can learn directly from experts in the field and interact with federal, state, and local decision-makers. In these sessions, speakers will discuss new practices, share success stories, and stimulate new ideas.
Craig Kasper, Executive Vice President and Jennifer Carter-Cornell, Senior Consultant-Funding Specialist at Verdantas will be teaming up with William Robertson, Mayor of Rittman, Ohio in a panel session on State and Local Government Programs and Partnerships as they tell of the Creative Reuse of a Closed Paperboard Facility to Optimize a Small Community’s Job Creation & Passive Recreation Needs. This success story involves the City of Rittman's creation of new industrial property and a nature preserve on the 300-acre former Caraustar-Rittman Paperboard facility that closed in 2006. Join them to hear how a small town is honoring its industrial past while creating new places to work and enjoy nature. Get session detail here.
Craig Kasper will also be participating in a panel on Liability and Enforcement as part of the Brownfield University sessions at the conference titled Legal Considerations of Brownfields Redevelopment where he and other "best of the best" offer their perspectives on how they analyze and redevelop even the toughest brownfield transactions. Get session detail here.
And finally, Lindsay Crow, Senior Project Manager at Verdantas will be part of a panel titled Addressing Real Estate Development Vapor Intrusion Challenges: Development, Environmental & Legal Professional Insights. She and fellow panelists will give their insights on issues associated with the evaluation of appropriate technologies, cleanup levels, mitigation and monitoring requirements. Get session detail here.
These brownfields experts, plus Senior Consultant Jen Gresh, will also be available throughout the conference in booth 420.
If you are in the brownfields industry or are part of a locale with a brownfields site, and you are looking to revitalize your community, spur economic growth, restore the environment, and protect the public health, this is the place to learn about strategies to tackle your brownfield challenges.
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