Seems like a good idea for someone to study the possibilities of setting aside a small percentage of brownfields for space for markets…

“It is perhaps one of the most cost-effective uses of federal dollars to be found anywhere in the federal government,” said Vernice Miller-Travis, former director of the Environmental Justice Initiative at the Natural Resource Defense Council, who was involved with advising EPA on the brownfields program when it was created. “Whole communities and cities have been brought back from the brink of economic despair because of successful brownfields redevelopment projects.”

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