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Stoel Rives LLP

Lease of Mind: Why Developers Should Consider Lease Options in Real Estate Agreements

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Before leasing land, it is important for developers to understand the benefits of using a lease-option structure instead of jumping straight into a leasehold. By deliberately separating and sequencing the grant of rights from...more

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Maximizing Opportunities for Redeveloping Brownfield Sites/Assessing the Potential for New American Innovation: U.S. House of...

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The Subcommittee on Environment of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy & Commerce held a March 11th hearing entitled: Maximizing Opportunities for Redeveloping Brownfields Sites: Assessing the...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Forever Chemicals Present Significant Challenges for Commercial Real Estate

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In recent years, PFAS — or “forever chemicals” — have emerged as a major topic of concern for landowners, business owners and environmental and real estate professionals as regulators focus more attention on the management...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Buying Property? Make Sure Your Phase I ESA Is Worth the Paper It’s Printed On

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Imagine it’s August 2024 and you just got the dreaded news from a colleague that a government agency suspects that there are hazardous substances on a new property your company just bought. Even worse, your colleague just...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

The New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program: Budget Updates and Looking Ahead to an Extension

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Governor Cuomo’s FY 2022 Budget provides relief to participants in the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) that risk losing their Tangible Property Tax Credit due to pandemic-related and other delays....more

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Ohio Expands Liability Protection for Brownfield Purchasers, But Reduces Incentives for Voluntary Cleanups

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The federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”), also known as the Superfund law, has been used successfully to clean up abandoned industrial sites across the country....more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Maine’s “Wicked Good” Voluntary Cleanup Program

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Maine’s Voluntary Response Action Program (VRAP) was enacted in 1993 to encourage the cleanup and redevelopment of Maine’s contaminated properties....more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Recent BUILD Act “Builds” on Existing Brownfields Program through Additional Liability Protection and Redevelopment Incentives

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Despite last minute veto threats from the White House, the bipartisan Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 was signed into law earlier this year. Buried deep in this massive omnibus spending bill is a major win for...more

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