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CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY
Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 143-164Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/coep.12171
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- Stacy Swartwood of EPA [BFRES-04-02]
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Using data from Charlotte, NC, a New South city without a legacy of heavily contaminated properties, we find the distance from unremediated brownfields-typically former industrial properties believed to have modest contamination-to have no effect on residential sales values, but proposed cleanup and actual remediation have positive, substantial, and significant effects especially within 0.5 miles of the brownfield. Our results are consistent whether we examine all property values within a given distance, such as 0.5 miles, or examine discrete distances, such as 0.3-0.5 miles. An estimate of the benefits is on the order of $4 million.
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