Thursday, November 5, 2020
ReScape Awards
Program
The Awards Program will start at 4:00 p.m.
Welcome
Severin Oman
Minnesota Brownfields
Keynote
Sam Grant
MN350
Special Thanks
Kinsey Neal
Minnesota Brownfields
Overview of Awards & Judging Process
Gabe Epstein
Minnesota Brownfields
Community Impact Award
(Small Project Category)
Kevin Carroll
City of Minneapolis
Community Impact Award
(Large Project Category)
Eric Weiss
Trust for Public Land
Economic Impact Award
(Small Project and Large Project Categories)
Briana Kirby
Bremer Bank
Environmental Impact Award
(Small Project and Large Project Categories)
Rosita Clarke
Federal EPA
Promising Project Award
Erin Berg
RETHOS
Innovation Award
Kristina Smitten
Hillcrest Development
Mac Hyde Brownfield Scholarship
Paul Hyde
Hyde Development
Call to Action and Closing Remarks
Eric Hesse
American Engineering Testing
Keynote Speaker
Sam Grant has been organizing through the intersections of environmental, economic, cultural and racial justice, and health, for more than three decades. As Executive Director of MN350, he applies what he has learned through years of struggle to advance the common well being of earth and people through the overlap of racial and climate justice. Sam is also a co-founder of the Environmental Justice Coordinating Council in North Minneapolis, which is now expanding its work to Saint Paul. He looks forward to mutually beneficial partnerships with Minnesota Brownfields and its many partner organizations to eradicate the environmental justice overburden in Minnesota’s communities most impacted by environmental injustice.
The Awards & Finalists
Minnesota Brownfields proudly offers this awards program recognizing exemplary
brownfield redevelopment projects completed statewide in these categories:
Community Impact
Projects achieving notable community benefits, placing a high value on community outreach, incorporating equitable approaches, improving quality-of-life issues, and/or using other social innovations or public policy initiatives.
Economic Impact
Projects modeling positive economic impacts for cities and neighborhoods involving community wealth creation, job or housing creation, increase in tax base, and/or promotion of smart growth.
Environmental Impact
Projects innovatively preventing environmental contaminant exposures, incorporating engineered barriers, sustainable building approaches, and/or natural resource restoration.
Promising Project
Projects currently underway or even stalled, which have shown innovative solutions to complex challenges, and promise substantial community, economic or environmental impacts upon completion.
Innovation
Projects employing unique and innovative approaches to redevelopment challenges related to engineering, financing, legal, community outreach, or other issues.

Brook Avenue Co-op and Maya Commons
Colder Products Company Corporate Headquarters
Great River Landing
Hook and Ladder Apartments
McGough Company Headquarters
Minnesota Drive Medical Campus
Mino Oski Ain Dah Yung
Park 7
Straight River Apartments and Straight River City Park
Union Flats Apartments
The Judges
Community Impact Award, Small Project Category
- Thomas Braun, Stoel Rives
- Kevin Carroll, City of Minneapolis
- Abbie Loosen, Project for Pride in Living
Community Impact Award, Large Project Category and Promising Project Award
- Erin Berg, RETHOS
- Martha Faust, Ramsey County
- Kristina Smitten, Hillcrest Development
Economic Impact Award, Small and Large Project Categories
- Briana Kirby, Bremer Bank
- Jim Schleper, Inventure Properties
- Meredith Udoibok, MN DEED
Environment Impact Award, Small and Large Project Categories
- Rosita Clarke, Federal EPA
- Dave Knight, MPCA
- Eric Weiss, Trust for Public Land
Innovation Award
- All judges
ReScape Host Committee
Lindsey Brown
Stantec
Sara Collova
Frattalone
Ava Langston-Kenney
St. Paul Port Authority
Bill Lazarz
Bay West
Mike Wardwell
Hyde Development and
Minnesota Brownfields Board Member
Minnesota Brownfields Board of Directors
Thank You Sponsors
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