Transforming Brownfields into Eco-industrial Parks

Transforming Brownfields into Eco-industrial Parks

Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
Transforming Brownfields into Eco‐industrial Parks
Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
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Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
What is an Eco‐Industrial Park?
• An industrial area that makes
more effective, efficient, and
ecological use of resources
– Materials, water, energy
– Land, Infrastructure, Buildings
– People
Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
Creating Eco‐Industrial Parks
• Planning
• Servicing
• Buildings
• Operations
Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
Why Create an EIP?
• Protect industrial tax base
• Maximize infrastructure
investment
• Attract new, progressive sectors
and jobs
• Meet economic, social, and
ecological objectives…. Create a
sustainable community with
industry not in spite of it.
Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
How to Create an EIP
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Visioning (incl. charrettes)
Master planning
Business planning Æ proformas
Stakeholder engagement
Policy changes
– Zoning, design guidelines, engineering
standards
• Engineering design (IDP!)
• Sales, marketing & attraction
• Infrastructure construction (ecoplans!)
• Building construction
Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
TaigaNova Eco‐Industrial Park
Fort McMurray, AB
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Green takes longer? Raw land to fully serviced in 3 years
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Green costs more? Market pricing with no premium
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Green earns less? Conventional private sector profit targets
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Who will come? Oilsands service companies & Fort McM’s first LEED Gold industrial bldg (First Nation owned!)
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Custom zoning, guidelines, sales & marketing, education
Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
EIPs & Brownfields
Means to retain industrial tax base & jobs
Leverage existing infrastructure
Showcase project for usu. high profile site
Often good transportation access
(highways, waterways, transit, rail)
• Link between ecological restoration &
ecologically-minded design
• Funding and incentives
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Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
Ford Motors Site ‐Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Reusing auto assembly plant
for green manufacturing
– Reuse vs demolition scenarios
– Strategic development
• Use existing infrastructure
• Maintain workforce
• Leverage funding
Growing the Green Economy: Developing
Eco-Industrial Parks in Your Community
Cultiver l’économie verte : aménager des
parcs éco-industriels dans votre collectivité
Saving Our Industrial Lands Initiative (SOIL) ‐Delta, BC
• Significant historic waterfront
industrial area
• Several demolition, landfill &
construction (DLC) waste sites
• Local & regional economic
importation Æ save these
industrial lands