Winners Celebrate at 10th Annual Phoenix Awards Ceremony.BOSTON -- Real estate developers, environmentalists and other public and private sector professionals honored 11 significant revitalization projects at the Phoenix Awards Ceremony during Brownfields 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts, held November 13-15, 2006. The award winners remediated and redeveloped over 4,000 acres of land while creating or retaining over 8,000 jobs. These sites are now used for medical research and medical centers, master-planned new urbanism communities, revitalized and expanding manufacturing plants, commercial centers, green buildings, restored waterfronts and trails for tourist destinations. Created in 1997, this prestigious award honors individuals and groups working to solve critical environmental challenges of transforming blighted and contaminated areas into productive new uses. The Phoenix Awards[TM] are widely recognized as the outstanding award for achievement of excellence in Brownfield redevelopment, and often are called "the Brownfields equivalent of Hollywood's Oscar." The Phoenix Awards[TM] Grand Prize was awarded to the Kendall Square Redevelopment Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Baldwin Park Redevelopment Project, Orlando, Florida was the 1st runner-up winner, and the Bethlehem Commerce Center, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania won the People's Choice Award. The People's Choice Award was presented to the project that received the most votes from the 7,000 conference attendees. For the first time, a Special Green Building Award was presented to the Alberici Corporate Center, St. Louis, Missouri. The 2006 Phoenix Award winners represent outstanding brownfield projects from each of the 10 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and (USEPA USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency ) regions, including projects selected for special honors. The 2006 winners are: Region 1: Kendall Square Redevelopment, Cambridge, Massachusetts Region 2: Fulton Fish Market The Fulton Fish Market is a fish market in New York, United States. It was originally a wing of the Fulton Market, established in 1822 to sell a variety of foodstuffs and produce. at Hunts Point, Bronx Hunts Point is a neighborhood in the Bronx borough of New York City. The peninsula extends west into a bend of the East River. The neighborhood is bounded by Westchester Avenue to the north, the Bronx River to the east, the East River to the south, and Prospect Avenue to the west. , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Region 3: Bethlehem Commerce Center, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Region 4: Baldwin Park Redevelopment Project, Orlando, Florida Region 5: Toledo Loves Its Jeep, Toledo, Ohio Region 6: Heifer International Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas required military intervention to desegregate schools (1957–1958). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 556–557] See : Bigotry Region 7: Alberici Corporate Headquarters, St. Louis, Missouri Region 8: Murray Smelter Site, Murray, Utah Region 9: Lion Creek Crossings, Oakland, California Region 10: Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes The Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes is a bike path which follows the old Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way from Mullan, a mountain mining town near the Montana border, to Plummer, a town on the prairie near the Washington border. Community Impact Winner: South Pier District, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Special Green Building Winner: Alberici Corporate Center, St. Louis, Missouri Marcus Peacock, Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Robert Golledge, Massachusetts Secretary of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, co-hosted the award ceremony. Other distinguished environmental experts from the USEPA, state environmental agencies and private sector also participated in the awards ceremony. They included: U.S. EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. Region 1 Administrator Bob Varney; Region 2 Administrator Alan Steinberg; Region 3 Administrator Don Welsh; Region 4 Administrator Jimmy Palmer; Region 5 Administrator Mary Gade; Region 6 Administrator Richard Greene; Region 7 Administrator John Askew; Region 8 Administrator Robbie Roberts; Region 9 Administrator Wayne Nastri; Region 10 Administrator Elin Miller, Greg Pfeifer ALCOA; and Jill Gaito, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (often abbreviated PA DEP, or just DEP) is state agency in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. See also
The awards are open to any individual, group, company, organization, government body or agency. Criteria for The Phoenix Awards[TM] focus on the magnitude of the project, innovative techniques, solutions to regulatory issues, and impact upon the community. A panel of environmental professionals and business, academic and government leaders select the winners. The Phoenix Awards[TM] were created and are coordinated by Denise K. Chamberlain, Esq., a brownfields expert, and are affiliated with the Phoenix Awards Institute, Inc., an environmental and community service non-profit, located in Mechanicsburg, PA (Harrisburg area). The Executive Committee members include: Denise K. Chamberlain, ARCADIS, Phoenix Executive Committee Chair; Dennis Alvord, U.S. EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ; Charlie Bartsch, ICF International; Edgar Berkey, Concurrent Technology Corporation; Linda Garczynski, Brownfields expert; Don Green, U.S. HUD Hud (h  d), a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. ; Ken Komoroski, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol ; David Lloyd, U.S. EPA; Howard McClintic, CTC CTC - Cornell Theory Center Foundation; Terri Smith, Environmental Liability Management, Inc.; and James P. Snyder, ARCADIS. Public and private sector sponsors support the program, including ALCOA, ARCADIS, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc., C.J. Betters Enterprises, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, Koppers Holdings, Inc., and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. To learn more information about The Phoenix Awards[TM], visit www.phoenixawards.org or contact Denise Chamberlain of ARCADIS at 717.761.0554 or dchamberlain@arcadis-us.com |
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