What is a Brownfield Site and What Did Jeffrey Place do to Revitalize One?
The term brownfield refers to a piece of land that was previously home to an industrial or commercial facility. Often, brownfield sites are located in urban areas and sit for years, taking up space without providing greenery or other benefits for the surrounding area. The investment and redevelopment of the sites positively affect the surrounding community by recreating the space, cleaning it up, and offering the area a new and beneficial purpose. Jeffrey Place is the former site of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. The buildings on the site were demolished in 1986, creating a vacant slab of concrete in the middle of Italian Village. Jeffrey Place is one of the most thoroughly documented sites in Columbus. The remediation plan leads to its certification for all of the planned uses for the site, including residential and park land. Now, where once there was nothing but an unsightly sea of concrete stands the first signs of a new and lively community- Jeffrey Place. What is New Urbanism and
