Making Money with
Contaminated Properties:
Seizing the Opportunities

Forum Program

Our full-day program highlights innovative approaches to brownfield redevelopment that are being applied successfully by different sectors, in communities across Canada.

  • Danny McInnis, Co-Chair Atlantic PIRI, PEI Environment Energy and Forests
    • The evolving regulatory environment in Atlantic Canada
  • Cynthia Rattle, Senior Researcher, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
    • Delivering Liveable Communities:
      Insights and Lessons Learned from Successful
      Brownfield Redevelopment for Housing
  • Bill Pellerin, Giffels Atlantic
    • Experience Redeveloping Brownfields
  • Neil Hardy, Altus-Helyer Group, St. John’s
    • An appraiser’s observations of redeveloped
      brownfield properties
  • Pierre-Marcel Desjardins, Dept. of Economics, Université de Moncton and Director of the Canadian Institute for Research on Regional Development
    • Brownfield development: economic considerations
  • KEYNOTE: Big bank financing of brownfield projects -
    James Evans, Sr. Manager Corporate Environmental Affairs, RBC Financial Group, Toronto
    • Brownfields - Raising the Comfort Level
      with Traditional Lenderss
  • Carolynn Reid, Economic Development and Real Estate, Hamilton
    • The City of Hamilton leads the Province of Ontario in Brownfield Redevelopment - the ERASE Program
  • David Harper, Kilmer Brownfield Equity Fund
    • Putting Private Equity to Work
  • Bernie Miller, CEO, McInnes Cooper, Moncton
    • Legal Issues Related to Brownfield Redevelopment: Regulatory and Civil Liability Impediments and Opportunities
  • Panel Discussion and Question and Answer
    • Ways to further support brownfield redevelopment

Plus

  • Exploring the options for liability relief
  • The value of properties following redevelopment
  • What is happening on the Federal scene to support brownfield redevelopment

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