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Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program
What is it?


The Brownfield Opportunity Areas (BOA) Program is designed to assist communities foster redevelopment and return dormant and blighted land into productive and catalytic areas while restoring environmental quality. This program provides municipalities and community-based organizations with resources to address local brownfields providing area-wide brownfield redevelopment planning, access to expert environmental and economic analysis, and environmental site assessment for strategic redevelopment parcels.

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Program Summary
Program Benefits
Current Projects
Environmental Site Assessments

 

Our goal is to work in partnership with local communities - governments and not-for-profits - to develop and realize a community vision for brownfield redevelopment. We want to work with you to make the vision real.

The BOA program also brings together the Division of Coastal Resources’s planning and community development expertise and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s expertise in cleaning up sites.

The goal of our inter-agency partnership is to help communities:

• Assess the full range of community problems posed by multiple brownfield sites;
• Build a shared vision and consensus on the future uses of strategic brownfield sites;
• Coordinate and collaborate with local, state, and federal agencies, community groups and private-sector partners;
• Develop public-private sector partnerships necessary to leverage investment in development projects that can revitalize diverse local communities and neighborhoods.

The BOA program recognizes that successful brownfield redevelopment comes in many forms and that each community has their own unique opportunity and revitalization goals. BOA provides a flexible planning framework for communities to catalyze the redevelopment of brownfields and affected areas through a locally-driven process.

Flexibility and active partnerning are just the beginning. Successful brownfields redevelopment requires strong local leadership; inclusive public engagement; a clear and realistic vision; and diverse public and private partnerships. Together, these ingredients can help brownfield communities - large and small - become better places to live, work, and play.


 

Learn About the Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program
How to Apply
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Mamaroneck and Larchmont, NY

The long-term success of the Town of Mamaroneck and the Village of Larchmont Local Waterfront Revitalization Program has been made possible by institutionalizing waterfront management into day-to-day municipal management by creating the Coastal Zone Management Commission.

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Financial assistance provided by the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended, administered by the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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