BAD 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 ...

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Groups 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 ...

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NBAC Seeking Applications for Economic Redevelopment Specialist

The West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC) seeks to hire an Economic Redevelopment Specialist in the Northern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center at West Virginia University. This position will ...

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2016 EPA EWDJT Funding Opportunities Released

The EPA has released the Request for Proposals and guidelines for their FY 2016 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) Funding Opportunities. In addition to Brownfields hazardous waste ...

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Coalfield 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 ...

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BAD 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 ...

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Glenville 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 ...

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NBAC Welcomes New Brownfields Redevelopment Specialist

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Anna Withrow has joined the Northern West Virginia Brownfields Assistance Center (NBAC) as its new brownfields redevelopment specialist. The NBAC is a program of the West ...

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