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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Bad 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 ...

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City 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 ...

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West Virginia Receives $1 Million in EPA Brownfields Grants

On May 28th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,000,000 in 2014 EPA Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Grants for five West Virginia communities.  Assessment grants provide funding to ...

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Parkersburg issues marble park survey

PARKERSBURG – City officials are seeking public input on the future of Agate Marble Park. The city is studying the 8-acre Vitro-Agate Marble Factory site off East Street near ...

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Brownfields Renewal: West Virginia Conference Pulls in Bright Minds of Tomorrow

The West Virginia Brownfields Conference was held in Morgantown in mid-September for a legitimate reason: proximity to higher learning. The conference moves to different areas of the state each ...

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