Winners Celebrate at 10th Annual Phoenix Awards Ceremony
BOSTON, Mass. – Nov. 14, 2006 – Real estate developers, environmentalists and other public and private sector professionals honored 11 significant revitalization projects at the Phoenix Awards Ceremony during Brownfields 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts, held November 13-15, 2006.
The award winners remediated and redeveloped over 4,000 acres of land while creating or retaining over 8,000 jobs. These sites are now used for medical research and medical centers, master-planned new urbanism communities, revitalized and expanding manufacturing plants, commercial centers, green buildings, restored waterfronts and trails for tourist destinations.
Created in 1997, this prestigious award honors individuals and groups working to solve critical environmental challenges of transforming blighted and contaminated areas into productive new uses. The Phoenix Awards™ are widely recognized as the outstanding award for achievement of excellence in Brownfield redevelopment, and often are called "the Brownfields equivalent of Hollywood's Oscar."
The Phoenix Awards™ Grand Prize was awarded to the Kendall Square Redevelopment Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Baldwin Park Redevelopment Project, Orlando, Florida was the 1st runner-up winner, and the Bethlehem Commerce Center, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania won the People's Choice Award. The People's Choice Award was presented to the project that received the most votes from the 7,000 conference attendees. For the first time, a Special Green Building Award was presented to the Alberici Corporate Center, St. Louis, Missouri.
The 2006 Phoenix Award winners represent outstanding brownfield projects from each of the 10 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) regions, including projects selected for special honors. The 2006 winners are:
Region 1: Kendall Square Redevelopment, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Region 2: Fulton Fish Market at Hunts Point, Bronx, New York
Region 3: Bethlehem Commerce Center, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Region 4: Baldwin Park Redevelopment Project, Orlando, Florida
Region 5: Toledo Loves Its Jeep, Toledo, Ohio
Region 6: Heifer International Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Region 7: Alberici Corporate Headquarters, St. Louis, Missouri
Region 8: Murray Smelter Site, Murray, Utah
Region 9: Lion Creek Crossings, Oakland, California
Region 10: Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes
Community Impact Winner: South Pier District, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Special Green Building Winner: Alberici Corporate Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Marcus Peacock, Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Robert Golledge, Massachusetts Secretary of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, co-hosted the award ceremony. Other distinguished environmental experts from the USEPA, state environmental agencies and private sector also participated in the awards ceremony. They included: U.S. EPA Region 1 Administrator Bob Varney; Region 2 Administrator Alan Steinberg; Region 3 Administrator Don Welsh; Region 4 Administrator Jimmy Palmer; Region 5 Administrator Mary Gade; Region 6 Administrator Richard Greene; Region 7 Administrator John Askew; Region 8 Administrator Robbie Roberts; Region 9 Administrator Wayne Nastri; Region 10 Administrator Elin Miller, Greg Pfeifer ALCOA; and Jill Gaito, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
The awards are open to any individual, group, company, organization, government body or agency. Criteria for The Phoenix Awards™ focus on the magnitude of the project, innovative techniques, solutions to regulatory issues, and impact upon the community. A panel of environmental professionals and business, academic and government leaders select the winners.
The Phoenix Awards™ were created and are coordinated by Denise K. Chamberlain, Esq., a brownfields expert, and are affiliated with the Phoenix Awards Institute, Inc., an environmental and community service non-profit, located in Mechanicsburg, PA (Harrisburg area). The Executive Committee members include: Denise K. Chamberlain, ARCADIS, Phoenix Executive Committee Chair; Dennis Alvord, U.S. EDA; Charlie Bartsch, ICF International; Edgar Berkey, Concurrent Technology Corporation; Linda Garczynski, Brownfields expert; Don Green, U.S. HUD; Ken Komoroski, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP; David Lloyd, U.S. EPA; Howard McClintic, CTC Foundation; Terri Smith, Environmental Liability Management, Inc.; and James P. Snyder, ARCADIS.
Public and private sector sponsors support the program, including ALCOA, ARCADIS, Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Inc., C.J. Betters Enterprises, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, Koppers Holdings, Inc., and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
To learn more information about The Phoenix Awards™, visit www.phoenixawards.org or contact Denise Chamberlain of ARCADIS at 717.761.0554 or dchamberlain@arcadis-us.com
