Brownfields Redevelopment

Client:	Real estate developer
Representation:	Real estate acquisition, remediation, redevelopment and insurance
Date:	1995 to 2008
Locations:	Chicago, Illinois

Summary:

Schiff Hardin was hired by a real estate developer as special environmental counsel for a Brownfields redevelopment project that transformed an illegal dump on the southwest side of Chicago — a former "Silver Shovel" site — into an industrial park. We negotiated the environmental provisions of the real estate acquisition agreement with the seller and the redevelopment agreement with the City of Chicago, and worked with insurance carriers to develop environmental insurance coverage.