Five Brownfields Projects in West Virginia Awarded Mini-Grants, Technical Assistance
Five brownfields projects in West Virginia have received grant funding from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. The former Brooke Glass project in Wellsburg and the former TS&T Pottery site ...
Read MoreBAD Buildings Focus of Fairmont-WVU Partnership
FAIRMONT — As Fairmont continues its quest to improve the Friendly City and revitalize the community, it has partnered with a group of students from West Virginia University’s College ...
Read MoreGroups Target Huntington Revitalization
HUNTINGTON – A forum hosted by the city of Huntington and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday brought together leaders of various local, state and federal agencies to provide ...
Read MoreCoalfield Development and CEGAS Announce Joint Job Training Program
Huntington, W.Va.: The community development non-profit Coalfield Development Corporation today announced a new partnership with the Center for Environmental, Geotechnical, and Applied Sciences (CEGAS) at Marshall University: “The Quality ...
Read MoreBAD To The Bone
There are bad strategies in dealing with urban tear-downs for the intention of eventually redeveloping them. And then there are BAD strategies for doing it. The upper case pathway—BAD—is ...
Read MoreGlenville Better Buildings Team Conducting Community Survey
The Glenville Better Buildings Team, an ad-hoc group of local volunteers, elected officials, and business and property owners, are conducting a city-wide survey to find potentially abandoned, dilapidated, or ...
Read MoreBad Buildings Summit Held to Discuss Vacant Buildings
WTRF 7 News Sports Weather – Wheeling Steubenville Community leaders throughout Brooke and Hancock Counties all have one thing in common: they want something done about the amount of ...
Read MoreU.S. House Subcommittee Hearing on the Reauthorization of The EPA’s Brownfields Program
Listen to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other panel members provide testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment regarding the reauthorization ...
Read MoreCity of Morgantown Holds First Bad-To-Better Buildings Meeting
Concerned residents came to the kickoff meeting for the BAD Buildings Program in Morgantown on Monday night to discuss abandoned properties in their neighborhoods. This is all part of ...
Read MoreBDC’s accomplishments will be put in spotlight
WELLSBURG, W.Va. — The Business Development Corporation’s achievements will be put in the spotlight by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the coming months. Officials from the EPA will ...
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