How to Use brownfield in a Sentence

brownfield

noun
  • Anamet is a good example of the challenges of the state’s urban brownfields.
    — Michael Puffer, courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • Regional planners often take the lead in getting small towns lined up for brownfields aid.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2026
  • There simply aren’t enough brownfields to reach the full needs of the energy transition.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But going from brownfields to greenfields is nothing other cities haven't already done.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 25 Dec. 2017
  • The deal marks the latest step in the transformation of the 700-acre brownfield.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 14 June 2017
  • The city is using tax capture funds and brownfield redevelopment funds to help.
    — Freep.com, 13 Feb. 2021
  • The proposal also includes details for cleanup of brownfield sites.
    — Lara Korte, WSJ, 18 June 2018
  • Low-income people and people of color, Veal said, often live on brownfield sites.
    — Anne Snabes, The Indianapolis Star, 7 July 2020
  • The better option, Dahl said, would be to put solar panels on brownfields, rooftops or even in parking lots.
    — Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The future home of the jail and commit resources to the first steps of remediating this brownfield.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The state’s brownfield remediation programs have put urban land back in use.
    — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2022
  • The bill includes funding to clean up Superfund and brownfield sites, reclaim abandoned mine lands, and more.
    — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Modernizing and digitalizing brownfield sites may seem like a recipe for downtime, but that’s no longer the case.
    — Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • That junkyard was a brownfield that need substantial clean-up and remediation.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 16 May 2018
  • Gould agrees that other areas should be considered for solar projects before farmland, like brownfields, rights-of-way and warehouse roofs.
    — Izzy Ross, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The idea was to get longstanding, idle, polluted brownfield sites back into productive use, for the economy and state tax rolls.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2020
  • So far, most investments in Venezuela are in existing oil sites—brownfields, in industry parlance.
    — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
  • The roughly 120,000-square-foot brick building was declared a brownfield and sat empty for years.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026
  • Lake Sandy Jo is a superfund site, which carries even more risk and liability than a brownfield.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Detroit City Council voted 8-1 in March in favor of the brownfields.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The aim is to transform what is a derelict brownfield site on the edge of the River Mersey into a thriving new waterfront neighbourhood.
    — David Prosser, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Michigan and Church is now approved for $16 million in local and state-level brownfield tax captures over 28 years.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2021
  • So that was built for the 2012 Summer Olympics, purpose built area on a brownfield site that had a lot of the venues for the Olympics.
    — AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
  • Used together, the brownfield and enterprise tax credits would wipe away nearly all the property taxes owed on new developments for a decade.
    — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The report showed most of state’s brownfield incentive programs had not reached job goals during a two-year period ending in 2015.
    — Mary Shanklin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2017
  • Building the new jail, whether or not to build it on, on a toxic brownfield that requires a lot of remediation or to renovate the current facility.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 May 2022
  • Investors in data centers have been drawn to the brownfield sites, where there is abundant natural gas to power them and water from the Ohio River to cool them.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Kowalski showed the new nonprofit’s board two examples of the redevelopment of brownfields.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • Some villagers have taken to fencing them off and dumping rubble on them in order to keep the buffaloes away and ease future planning applications by making the sites appear to be brownfield.
    — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The brownfield sites often hide hazardous chemicals that have leached into the land, contaminating the soil with lead, asbestos and other substances used in industry.
    — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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