2020 ReScape Awards Event Videos

Thursday, November 5, 2020

ReScape Awards

Minnesota Brownfields and members of Minnesota’s redevelopment community celebrate finalist projects demonstrating innovation, collaboration, and exemplary results in revitalizing formerly contaminated land.

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.