Vision: How We Can Turn Foreclosed Strip Malls and Parking Lots into Parks | | AlterNet

Vision: How We Can Turn Foreclosed Strip Malls and Parking Lots into Parks | | AlterNet: "Now comes “Redfields to Greenfields,” a promising initiative aimed at reducing the huge supply of stricken commercial properties while simultaneously revitalizing the areas around them. (It’s a catchy title, if imprecise because it’s about re-establishing greenfields within developed areas, not about doing anything to natural or agricultural acreage at the urban margins.) The plan, in essence, is this: Determine where defunct properties might fit a metropolitan green-space strategy; acquire and clear them; then make them into parks and conservation areas, some permanent and some only land-banked until the market wants them again.

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