//Overcoming barriers and facilitating brownfields redevelopment in the GTHA: A review of results from interviews with private sector stakeholders
Overcoming barriers and facilitating brownfields redevelopment in the GTHA: A review of results from interviews with private sector stakeholders 2018-11-21T07:59:51-05:00

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Overcoming barriers and facilitating brownfields redevelopment in the GTHA: A review of results from interviews with private sector stakeholders

The redevelopment of brownfields is seen to offer communities a “triple benefit” in terms ofremediating pollution, removing neighbourhood blight, and providing new development and employment. It is for this reason that the Ontario government, through its Provincial Policy Statement and the Growth Plan, explicitly promotes brownfield redevelopment as an opportunity for intensification and more sustainable growth. Provincial ministries and municipalities have also implemented a range of policy, funding, and technical assistance tools tofacilitate cleanup and redevelopment by the private market. Indeed, Ontario’s model, combined with a relatively strong real estate market, has resulted in over 4,000 cleanup and redevelopment projects between 2004 and 2014. This points to the opportunity, already unlocked by the market via the existing policy regime, and the importance of figuring out ways, to promote the model further.

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