Chambers USA Ranks Environmental Practice Among KC-Area Leaders Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Ranked in Band 1 in KC and Surrounds Category Stinson Leonard Street LLP announced that the firm's Environmental and Natural Resources practice has been ranked among the leaders in the Kansas City area in the 2014 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Four of the firm's environmental law attorneys are also ranked among the top practitioners in the Kansas City area. A total of 50 Stinson Leonard Street lawyers are ranked the 2014 edition of Chambers USA.
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When private and public developers, government entities and lenders seek to remediate and redevelop contaminated, unused and stigmatized brownfields into new vital business opportunities, they turn to Stinson Leonard Street, whose brownfields-related skills and experience are unsurpassed among law firms in the Midwest. Clients benefit from our multidisciplinary team of real estate and environmental attorneys, many of whom have scientific, engineering, architectural and technical professional backgrounds that complement our nationally recognized legal experience. Several of our attorneys also served as assistant attorneys general and state attorneys before going into private practice. Our deep and extensive knowledge and connections allow us to understand the technical issues that are inherent in brownfields projects and the nuanced legal issues that less experienced attorneys may miss. We also work effectively and efficiently with environmental consultants to ensure that our clients’ objectives are achieved.
When private and public developers, government entities and lenders seek to remediate and redevelop contaminated, unused and stigmatized brownfields into new vital business opportunities, they turn to Stinson Leonard Street, whose brownfields-related skills and experience are unsurpassed among law firms in the Midwest.
Clients benefit from our multidisciplinary team of real estate and environmental attorneys, many of whom have scientific, engineering, architectural and technical professional backgrounds that complement our nationally recognized legal experience. Several of our attorneys also served as assistant attorneys general and state attorneys before going into private practice. Our deep and extensive knowledge and connections allow us to understand the technical issues that are inherent in brownfields projects and the nuanced legal issues that less experienced attorneys may miss. We also work effectively and efficiently with environmental consultants to ensure that our clients’ objectives are achieved.
SCOPE OF SERVICE Stinson Leonard Street's brownfields counsel has been involved with returning scores of contaminated properties back to viable uses ranging from industrial and commercial facilities to theaters and schools, and has secured millions of dollars in grants, low-interest loans and tax increment financing for our clients’ projects. We routinely assist clients through the environmental challenges and opportunities of voluntary cleanup under the various risk-based programs, as well as the financing aspects of brownfields redevelopment, including: Advising on the procedural and substantive requirements of the various available funding programs Helping identify funding sources Obtaining the support of governmental entities Preparing required applications Assisting with public and tax-increment financing We also are experienced in: Representing private and public developers of brownfields Drafting brownfields-related legislation RELEVANT EXPERIENCE We have served as counsel on the following brownfields redevelopment projects: Sprint Center, sports and entertainment arena (Kansas City, Mo.) Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, a Major League Baseball team (Minneapolis, Minn.) \ Industrial Facility Sites, remediation of sites in Barnegat, Newark and Maple Shade (N.J.) Beacon Bluff Business Center, an industrial/office park (Saint Paul, Minn.) Old Town / Gilbert & Mosley Site, remediation of commercial/industrial properties (Wichita, Kans.) Former Joslyn Manufacturing Superfund Site, an office/warehouse development (Brooklyn Center, Minn.) Hoigaard Village, a mixed-use development (St. Louis Park, Minn.) Great Northern Business Center, an industrial park (Saint Paul, Minn.) Westminster Junction Business Center, an industrial park (Saint Paul, Minn.) Williams Hill Business Center, an industrial park (Saint Paul, Minn.) Baldinger Bakery, a commercial bakery (Saint Paul, Minn.) H&R Block, world headquarters (Kansas City, Mo.) River Bend, an office development (Saint Paul, Minn.) Former Globe Building Materials site, planned for future use (Saint Paul, Minn.) West Side Flats, a mixed-use development (Saint Paul, Minn.) Hi-Lake Center/Corridor Flats, a mixed-used, transit-oriented development (Minneapolis, Minn.) Midway Shopping Center, a retail development (Saint Paul, Minn.) Retail Redevelopment Project in Abilene, Tex. Retail Redevelopment Project in Great Bend, Kan. Retail Redevelopment Project in Antlers, Okla. LA Fitness, a fitness center development (St. Louis Park, Minn.) River Run, a residential development (Minneapolis, Minn.) Kansas City Power & Light, retail and entertainment district (Kansas City, Mo.) Lodge at Little Canada, a retail/office development (Little Canada, Minn.) Cherokee South Shopping Center, retail shopping center (Overland Park, Kans.) Former Schnitzer Iron & Metal Site (Saint Paul, Minn.) Former Franklin Avenue Super America site (Minneapolis, Minn.) Former Quadion Fay Site, planned for future use (Chicago, Ill.) Former Mounds View School District Office, planned for future use (Mounds View, Minn.) Red Hook Industrial Site, private school development (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Lakeshore East Industrial Site, charter school development (Chicago, Ill.) Tar Creek Superfund Site, development of telecommunication facility (Galena, Kans.) Oronogo-Duenweg Mining Belt Superfund Site, development of telecommunication facility (Webb City, Mo.) Tar Creek Superfund Site, development of telecommunication facility (Picher, Okla.) OF NOTE Stinson Leonard Street attorney Dave Tripp served as counsel on one of the country's first brownfields redevelopment projects, which was honored by the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government with an "Innovations in State and Local Government" award. Our attorneys have been involved with risk-based voluntary cleanup and brownfields efforts in more than 20 states. Our attorneys have been instrumental in drafting and enacting brownfields-related legislation, including Minnesota's Land Recycling Act and the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
Stinson Leonard Street's brownfields counsel has been involved with returning scores of contaminated properties back to viable uses ranging from industrial and commercial facilities to theaters and schools, and has secured millions of dollars in grants, low-interest loans and tax increment financing for our clients’ projects. We routinely assist clients through the environmental challenges and opportunities of voluntary cleanup under the various risk-based programs, as well as the financing aspects of brownfields redevelopment, including:
We also are experienced in:
We have served as counsel on the following brownfields redevelopment projects:
Stinson Leonard Street attorney Dave Tripp served as counsel on one of the country's first brownfields redevelopment projects, which was honored by the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government with an "Innovations in State and Local Government" award.
Our attorneys have been involved with risk-based voluntary cleanup and brownfields efforts in more than 20 states.
Our attorneys have been instrumental in drafting and enacting brownfields-related legislation, including Minnesota's Land Recycling Act and the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.