Serving DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Okeechobee and Polk Counties

The FPZA Awards Committee has recognized the Central Florida Regional Planning Council’s East Lake Parker/West North Combee Brownfields Plan as the 2016 Outstanding Redevelopment Project recipient.

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East Lake Parker/West North Combee Areawide Plan

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Central Florida Regional Planning Council a Brownfields Areawide Planning Grant to develop an areawide plan for the blighted and heavy industrial East Lake Parker – West North Combee area (in Lakeland, Polk County, Florida). The Plan recognizes the development limitations due in part to properties considered to be brownfields while creating specific strategies to make revitalization a reality. Developed through extensive community-based involvement, local government collaboration, and partnerships with private property owners, the Plan is the foundation for future assessment, cleanup, and reuse of brownfields properties promoting areawide revitalization and economic development.

Regional Planning Council Receives Local Recognition for Turning a Brownfield into a Healthfield

An Award for Outstanding Contribution for the Mulberry Health Care Clinic, Brownfield to Healthfield project was presented to the Central Florida Regional Planning Council (CFRPC) at the American Planning Association (APA) Florida Chapter, Heart of Florida Section’s 2016 Annual Meeting on January 22 in Winter Haven.

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WASHINGTON, DC – The Central Florida Regional Planning Council (CFRPC), based in Bartow, Florida received a 2015 Innovation Award from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation for the Central Florida Regional Planning Council Brownfields Areawide Plan.

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The Central Florida Regional Planning Council, based in Bartow, Florida received two 2013 Innovation Awards from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation for the Florida Heartland Energy Baseline and Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Heartland Brownfields Revitalization Partnership – Mulberry Health Clinic projects.

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