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Land Revitalization

  • Revitalization-Ready

    Use the Revitalization-Ready Guide to help your community start to redevelop the contaminated, potentially contaminated, idle and underused properties in your city or town into thriving public and natural spaces.

    Learn more about the guide

The safe and sustainable reuse of previously contaminated properties is supported through EPA's Land Revitalization (LR) Program.

EPA’s LR Program helps remove barriers to contaminated property redevelopment. When a property once again becomes an asset to the community, the redevelopment often brings about new opportunities to protect public health, improve the environment and grow the local economy.

  • About Land Revitalization

    Image depicting the revitalization timeline from abandomment to revitalization

    Learn how the land revitalization program encourages communities and land owners to reuse and redevelop land that was previously contaminated and turn it into public parks, restored wetlands, and new businesses bringing economic benefits and quality of life improvements.

    Learn the basics
  • Technical Assistance Projects

    Learn more about Land Revitalization

    Discover, using a map interface, how EPA has helped communities with revitalization projects by providing technical assistance, Reusing cleaned up sites protects public health and the environment by preventing sprawl, preserving green space and reinvigorating communities.  Note  that the examples in the map are a sampling of success stories, and is not a full inventory of all land revitalization projects.

    Read more about revitalization projects
  • Land Revitalization Toolkit

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    Find resources in our Land Revitalization Toolkit to help your community safely reuse brownfield and other contaminated properties to transform blighted spaces into inviting reinvigorated spaces ready to benefit the community.

    Explore the toolkit

Land Revitalization Connections Across EPA

  • Brownfields
  • RE-Powering America’s Land
  • Green infrastructure
  • Smart Growth
  • Urban Waters
  • Superfund Redevelopment
  • Sustainable materials management
  • Green & healthy buildings
  • EnviroAtlas
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Last updated on April 29, 2025
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