WESTON in the News

October 2003

Article on Brownfields Development Area Initiative Featured in Environmental Law

Sally Jones, P.G., Vice President responsible for WESTON's NY/NJ business, and Albert I. Telsey, Esq., environmental attorney for Maraziti, Falcon & Healey in Short Hills, NJ, co-wrote an article for the October 2003 issue of Environmental Law magazine entitled “Brownfields Development Area Initiative Is an Idea in the Making.”  The article touted the benefits of combining brownfield development parcels into large areas and redeveloping them simultaneously, thus saving money used for redevelopment by site and encouraging larger-scale neighborhood redevelopment.

Current practice is to redevelop brownfields parcel by parcel.  Jones and Telsey are encouraging this new initiative as a way to save the property owner money, while increasing the value of the area by redeveloping more parcels simultaneously. 

In the article, the authors map out the critical first-year steps the stakeholders in each Brownfields Development Area (BDA) must take for successful brownfield redevelopment, and the facts that DEP considers in determining which areas most likely to take part in the initiative.