Worcester has been burdened by a lack of suitable land for commercial and industrial business to develop for years. Brownfield sites are considered economically or financially dangerous due to possible liability issues. In order to organize information about suspected sites, and reduce hesitation about developing on brownfields, our group created a database accompanied by a maintenance manual for potential developers and the City of Worcester.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Landrum, Edward Franklin
• Salazar, Elizabeth Ruth
• Silva, Jared Joseph
• Tervola, Timo Olavi

Subject

• Environment
• Infrastructure
• Computing
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04D013I

Mot-clé

• City planning
• Web sites--Design and construction

Advisor

• Kasouf, Chickery J.
• Krueger, Robert

Year

• 2004

Center

• Worcester Community Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Sponsor

• City of Worcester

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Emplacement

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright