From the Surreal Estate column on SF Gate, “You see them in every city — old abandoned gas stations, dry cleaners that sit empty for a decade, factories that no longer belch smoke into the city sky. Brownfields, they’re called. The EPA defines them as real estate that has been or is perceived to be contaminated with toxic substances. According to San Francisco-based Center for Creative Land Recycling, which helps nonprofit developers and governments with cost and feasibility assessments, there are approximately 100,000 brownfields in California.”

“Because these sites require detoxification to make them habitable, perhaps it’s not surprising that this somewhat esoteric undertaking is being fueled largely by baser forces known as property values. (Call it the nice side of a mean real estate market.)”

“In the last 10 years we have seen the emergence of a family of ecological technologies that allow us to go into a number of badly damaged environments and quickly transform them…”

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