Area-Wide Redevelopment Opportunity Planning

CBF will evaluate community assets and regional dynamics, conduct an inventory of redevelopment opportunities and site assemblage opportunities, and integrate this property-based opportunity analysis into an asset revitalization strategy for small town, suburban, and urbanized communities.

Headwaters Initiative

CBF will work closely with small town revitalization efforts to educate and support local community champions and build local capacity to integrate brownfields redevelopment with community and economic development efforts.

Renewable Energy Initiative

CBF provides environmental coordination to support the reuse of brownfields sites as renewable energy sites.

CBF cleaned up a former methamphetamine lab operation and replaced it with a new, modern, energy-efficient home. Once it was discovered by police, the house was vacated, sealed, and foreclosed upon. The property was donated to CBF by Chase Bank, and with grant assistance from the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, the cleanup of asbestos and meth contamination was completed. The house was demolished and a new home was built by CBF's local development partner Community Builders, Inc.

The Sugar Beet Factory Initiative identified twenty-two former sugar beet plants as having operated in Colorado at one time or another in the previous century. This collaborative effort, funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, engages government, non-profits, and private industry to address redevelopment issues facing sugar beet factory communities in Colorado. Stakeholder communities serving as models impacted by a disappearing sugar beet industry include: Greeley, Eaton, Fort Morgan, and Longmont.

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Templeton Gap Landfill (TGap) is a closed 43 acre landfill located within a business park development at the growing northeast edge of Colorado Springs in El Paso County. It served the Colorado Springs community from 1957 until 1980 and is currently under Cleanup order with the State of Colorado. An active pollution prevention system is in place to protect groundwater quality from possible threats from the former landfill. The Colorado Brownfields Foundation (CBF) now controls the TGap site and is creating a business model for developing renewable energy at the site with the dual goal of providing locally generated renewable energy and ultimately creating a revenue stream to run a long-term pollution prevention system. CBF was first introduced to this site by the El Paso County Environmental Department with concerns regarding the long-term protection of human health and environment. CBF agreed to act as project coordinator, negotiate control of the site, and advance this project.

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