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  • Selecting and Working with Environmental Consultants ( July 2006 )

    Your client is a manufacturer who has long outgrown its original four-story brick building that is now surrounded by a residential neighborhood. A nearby expressway and an exit and entrance ramp make the property attractive to a local real estate developer. After learning about the Governor’s State of the Union message targeting "brownfields" for redevelopment funds, your client calls you. They want you to find a good environmental consultant to help them work with the developer.
  • On Real Estate ( August 2003 )

    Newsletter for the real estate industry. Fall 2003. Contains articles on the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), mezzanine financing, and the benefits and costs of green alternatives.
  • Entangled or Entangled? ( August 2003 )

    As the strong real estate market continues, many developers and investors are reevaluating projects that, although they may have received previous government land-use approvals or "entitlements," remain only partially built-out or undeveloped. Generally, properties with existing entitlements are thought to carry less risk than unentitled land and, as a result, sellers expect a premium price. While this general assumption often holds true, many projects, unfortunately, have their own unique skeletons in the closet.
  • Community Environmental Projects ( January 2001 )

    Effective September 18, 1999, DEP revised its technical guidance document entitled "Policy for the Acceptance of C.
  • Selection And Effective Use Of Environmental Consultants- Part I ( October 1999 )

    This article is the first article in a series of three that discusses the basic considerations in preparing (or issuing) a request for qualifications and/or a request for proposal to an environmental consultant.
  • IRRC Approves Regulations ( January 2000 )

    At its November 4, 1999 meeting, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission approved proposed regulations from th.
  • Environmental Justice: Recent Federal and State Developments ( December 1999 )

    Will additional facility expansions or brownfields developments be delayed, or environmental permits adversely affe.

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