Date: Friday, December 12, 12–1 p.m. ET
More than $10 trillion in new investment across the United States is either proposed or already underway. Much of it involves modern manufacturing and AI-related infrastructure, and the demand for suitable development sites continues to grow. At the same time, significant EPA grant funding is available NOW to support site preparation and cleanup, with applications due January 28, 2026.
“The manufacturing renaissance in the U.S. has only just begun,” says Didi Caldwell, President and CEO of Global Location Strategies. “Yet this boom is constrained by the most-basic requirement — physical space to build” (The State of Site Selection 2025, p. 22).
These market trends provide a significant window of opportunity to bring new development back to underused and abandoned sites. This webinar will outline why brownfields redevelopment is more critical to local economic strategy than ever before and how to put EPA’s final round of historically large brownfields grants to work to generate redevelopment results.
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SPEAKERS
Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor is the Founder and President of Vita Nuova and Chair of the Redevelopment Institute. He is a leading strategist in implementing redevelopments at brownfield and Superfund sites.
Mr. Taylor works in many of the country’s most challenging areas, including remote rural locations, inner-city environmental justice neighborhoods, and some of the most contaminated sites in the country. He has specialized expertise in bringing diverse parties to consensus to facilitate redevelopment.
Mr. Taylor chaired ASTM International’s task group for the National Standard on Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment and is personally involved in implementing this groundbreaking process at Superfund and brownfield sites nationwide and received the lifetime achievement award for Thought Leadership from the Center for Creative Land Recycling in 2019.
Sarah Sieloff, AICP
Sarah Sieloff is a planner at Haley & Aldrich. Based in Bellingham, Washington, Ms. Sieloff helps public and private sector clients throughout the US build more sustainable, livable futures through brownfield redevelopment. Prior to becoming a consultant in 2021, Ms. Sieloff was a 2020 Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi Fellow in Japan, where she researched population aging and decline and its impact on city planning. She also served for five years as the executive director of the nonprofit Center for Creative Land Recycling and spent four years in federal service at USAID and HUD, where she led the Memphis, Tennessee team for the White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities. Ms. Sieloff writes regularly on planning-related topics for publications including Public Management Magazine, Bloomberg CityLab, and The Tokyo Review.