Champions For Brownfield Revitalization
Successful Advocacy Provides Ohio’s Communities with Significant Brownfield Investment
Greater Ohio Policy Center is the states leading nonprofit advocacy organization championing investment in brownfield clean-up and redevelopment. We work with the Ohio’s leading policymakers to ensure the availability of financial resources, and that rules and state law encourage brownfield revitalization.
What We Do
Brownfield Benefits
The Brownfield Revitalization Program (BRR) provided Ohio’s communities with the first significant investment of brownfield grant dollars since the end of the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund (CORF) in 2013. This report examines the first two rounds of BRP grant awards and looks ahead to the future of these sites.
Legislative Testimony
GOPC has championed investment in brownfield redevelopment at the Ohio Statehouse for more than a decade. This has included regular appearances before the committees of the Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate educating lawmakers on past and future remediation opportunities across Ohio.
Pending Legislation
As Ohio’s leading nonprofit advocate for investment in brownfields and changes to state law to ensure clean-up and redevelopment of brownfields are prioritized, GOPC workers with Ohio lawmakers to develop legislation and policy that provides the tools necessary to remediate brownfields statewide.
Ohio’s Brownfield Champions
Aaron Clapper
As Director of Outreach and Projects at the Greater Ohio Policy Center, Aaron is our team leader for brownfields policy work. Aaron also assists the organization with coalition-building and research projects, and manages the organization’s Reinvention Cities Network.
Jason Warner
As Director of Strategic Engagement at the Greater Ohio Policy Center, Jason is the team leader for our advocacy work at the Ohio Statehouse, advancing the issues and policy positions central to GOPC’s mission, testifying on legislation, and overseeing communications operations.
Get Involved.
In 2021, Ohio made a historic investment to mitigate brownfield sites in the state. This substantial, one-time investment will uncover more potential projects than there are currently funds for. Securing for more funding will require a coalition of advocates.
