Burlington, Vt.

摘要

Hugging the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vt., was one of the country's busiest lumber ports between the mid-1800s and early 1900s, when it became a major oil-distribution hub for the New England interior. Today, the college town-home to the University of Vermont, Burlington College, and several other schools-is a living lab for brownfield redevelopment.rnIn 1996, the city government hired a full-time brownfield specialist whose mandate is to redevelop the waterfront. Burlington "works closely with owners and developers to encourage the reuse of these sites, through tax incentives, new business development, infrastructure work, or the local planning process," says Gary Lavigne, president of Wiemann Lamphere Architects. The firm, based in the nearby town of Colchester, has worked on nine of Burlington's 26 rehab projects.