For every brownfield, there was once a thriving industrial or commercial facility providing jobs and enhancing the region’s economy. Our strength is in helping clients revitalize these dormant sites to once again support industrial, residential, retail and commercial growth. Our competence in this field is well known; the president of the state senate named one of our partners in 2006 to chair a task force on brownfields to evaluate state strategies and to provide options for an effective, long-term strategy of brownfield redevelopement.
Our accomplished environmental and land use team guides you through the acquisition, investigation, remediation, financing and redevelopment of brownfields and urban sites. These projects present unique environmental and regulatory challenges. With a firm grasp of the policy, the law and the development issues, we guide you through these challenges to find the opportunities beyond.
Halloran Sage attorneys also advise clients on Transfer Act compliance and related transactional issues. Connecticut law imposes an added layer of regulation on changes of ownership involving certain industrial properties. For covered properties, analysis is required of soil and groundwater. If hazardous waste is detected, a party to the transfer must certify that it will take responsibility for further investigation and remediation. Our substantial experience in these transactions helps us ensure both compliance with government regulations and completion of the deal.
Our services also include assistance in obtaining funding for brownfields projects from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Connecticut Brownfield Redevelopment Authority and the Connecticut Development Authority. We are also working to chart the agenda for one state’s newly created Office of Brownfield Redevelopment as a one-stop shop for publicly funded brownfield initiatives. We have been instrumental in and look to developing public-private partnerships between the private developers with the local and state governments to encourage brownfield development through property-tax deferrals or abatements.