The Chippewa County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority is established pursuant to the Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act, Act 381 of the Public Acts of the State of Michigan of 1996, as amended and the Resolution establishing a Brownfield Redevelopment Authority for the County of Chippewa and Appointing Authority Directors, approved September 8, 1997, by the Chippewa County Board of Commissioners.
In order to accomplish its public purpose, the Authority may, pursuant to the Act, approve Brownfield Plans for local tax capture and submit Brownfield Plans to the State of Michigan for approval of state tax capture; apply for and receive grants and loans for brownfield development; award grants and loans for brownfield development; and borrow money and issue revenue bonds or revenue notes.
Mission: The Authority’s mission is to retain and create jobs; contribute to stabilization and diversification of the area’s economic base; promote investment and business opportunity; promote environmental health and public safety by addressing contamination; remove blighted and obsolete structures; and facilitate new housing construction in Chippewa County.
Environmental demolition costs make developing a blighted or contaminated site expensive and local government doesn’t have funds for these extra costs. If you are a builder, you will lose money building homes for middle income people. While there is plenty of demand, the supply won’t increase without incentives. Developers will go where it’s easiest / most profitable to develop.
