“The project is part of a growing willingness by state and city governments to offer big incentives to corporations to develop so-called brownfield sites—urban sites contaminated by former factories and mills.”
—Jon G. Auerbach, “Pfizer Revives Connecticut ‘Brownfield’: Research Campus to Be Built on Contaminated Urban Site,” The Wall Street Journal, February 4, 1998, p. A2.
"Many cities have also sought to transform undeveloped lots into green space and urban agriculture. It’s a natural fit and, again, in [the] Kensington [neighborhood of Philadelphia] a full city block has been converted from an industrial brownfield to an admirably active farm. But land-based strategies that try to reinvent this vacant lot or that blighted ground do little to stem the larger social trends that created the spatial problem in the first place."
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