What is a Brownfield?*
"Brownfields are highly contaminated properties that pose environmental concerns for local residents, and legal and financial burdens on communites. Often abandoned industrial or commercial properties, brownfields can diminish the property values of surrounding areas and potentially threaten the economic viability of adjoining properties. However, after cleanup, these sites can again offer economic vitality, jobs and community pride."
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What is The Brownfield Opportunity Area Program?*
"The New York State's initiated program provides financial and technical assistance to municipalities and community-based organizations to conduct redevelopment planning for areas containing multiple brownfield sites. Through the Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program, communities will have opportunities to return dormant areas back to productive use and simultaneously restore environmental quality."
What is the BOA Step 2 Nomination Study?*
"The Step 2 Nomination Study is intended for communites that have engough information to generate a Pre-Nomination Study on their own, but need assistance to prepare a Nomination that thoroughly describes existing conditions, issues and opportunites. The Nomination provedes an in-depth and thorough description and analysis, including an economic and market trends analysis, of existing conditions, opportunites, and reuse potential for properties located in the proposed Brownfield Opportunity Area with an emphasis on the identification and reuse potential of strategic brownfield sites that are catalysts for revitalization."
*You can find above definitions on New York State's official website "NYSWaterFronts.com"