The City of Houston’s Brownfields Redevelopment Program facilitates the identification, assessment, clean up and reuse of environmentally contaminated properties within Houston. Program projects result in urban revitalization by eliminating neighborhood environmental concerns; restoring contaminated land to productive use; creating new housing, commerce and green space; and generating new employment opportunities to benefit the local community. Since its inception in 1996, the Program has helped to facilitate construction of 975 housing units, create 2,564 new full time jobs, return $1.61 million in delinquent taxes and $802,000 per year in new annual taxes to the local taxing entities, and bring about reuse of 550 acres of brownfields whose redevelopment costs total over $720 million.

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