Career Brownfield Site Manager

Brownfield Site Manager

October 30, 2007

What is it?

Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contaminations.

Contaminated Water Contaminated Soil Sites of Old Factories

What do you do?

A Brownfield site manager is a real estate developer who understands and handles all aspects of Brownfield cleanup.” - Stephen Villavaso, co-director

Brownfields Initiatives

Other duties as well….

Getting Started

School: – Bachelor's or master’s degree in environmental

management, land use planning, or urban planning, with coursework in real estate and business.

Helpful– Work with real estate firms– Work with financial institutions– Prior experience with community

outreach programs

Job Opportunities

Public vs. Private– Aspiring managers can either work for a private company or

a government organization.

Problem – work opportunities rise and fall with the housing market. – New government regulations can have an effect on

managers. i.e. knowing the rules for complex government grants and

subsidies

Pittsburgh, PA

In Homestead, Pennsylvania In Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood In Southside, Pittsburgh In Hazelwood In Herr's Island

Centro Astriano Hospital Tampa, Florida

New York

• Old Factory from mid- 1800’s- 1980’s

• Waterfront Park

Richmond, VA

• Right here in Richmond there have been successes!

• An old armory polluted ground with lead and mercury

• Whitehall-Robins applied for grant to clean it up.– They wanted to build a

100,000 square foot pharmaceutical lab.

National Brownfield Association

www.brownfieldassociation.org– Becoming a member gets you…

Continued education and training News for upcoming events Access to Brownfield database

– You can know where the nearest Brownfields are to you

Salaryalary Entry-level position: ~$50,000- $60,000 Median annual income: ~$70,000 Top salaries: ~$120,000 or more

Hard to get into because of the various backgrounds you need. – (Business/ ‘Environmental Studies/Management’)

Why I chose this career…

Interested in cleaning up environment Have always been interested in real estate

Why not combined the two and make career out of it!