January 8, 2007—Real estate developers, environmentalists, and other public and private sector professionals recently honored 11 significant revitalization projects at the Phoenix Awards Ceremony during Brownfields 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. Created in 1997, this award honors individuals and groups working to solve critical environmental challenges of transforming blighted and contaminated areas into productive new uses.
The award winners remediated and redeveloped over 4,000 acres of land while creating or retaining over 8,000 jobs, explains the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These sites are now used for medical research and medical centers, master-planned new urbanism communities, revitalized and expanding manufacturing plants, commercial centers, green buildings, restored waterfronts, and trails for tourist destinations, says the EPA.
The 2006 Phoenix Award winners represent outstanding brownfield projects from each of the 10 US EPA regions, including projects selected for special honors. The 2006 winners are:
- Grand Prize: Kendall Square Redevelopment Project, Cambridge, MA
- First Runner-up: Baldwin Park Redevelopment Project, Orlando, FL
- People’s Choice Award (most votes from the 7,000 conference attendees): Bethlehem Commerce Center, Bethlehem, PA
- Community Impact Winner: South Pier District, Sheboygan, WI
- Special Green Building Winner (inaugural year): Alberici Corporate Center, St. Louis, MO
- Region 1: Kendall Square Redevelopment, Cambridge, MA
- Region 2: Fulton Fish Market at Hunts Point, Bronx, NY
- Region 3: Bethlehem Commerce Center, Bethlehem, PA
- Region 4: Baldwin Park Redevelopment Project, Orlando, FL
- Region 5: Toledo Loves Its Jeep, Toledo, OH
- Region 6: Heifer International Center, Little Rock, AR
- Region 7: Alberici Corporate Headquarters, St. Louis, MO
- Region 8: Murray Smelter Site, Murray, UT
- Region 9: Lion Creek Crossings, Oakland, CA
- Region 10: Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes
For more information about The Phoenix Awards, visit online.
