The developer behind Charlotte’s first and only Eco-Industrial Park, Tom McKittrick, has accepted a lecture invitation from Yale University to share his experience transforming a former Superfund site into a brand new business model for revitalizing previously contaminated sites. ReVenture Park is situated on a 667 acre shuttered textile dye-manufacturing complex and is the largestRead the entire article…
Raleigh, N.C. – March 11, 2013. Governor Pat McCrory and Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary John Skvarla announced the signing of a brownfields agreement for ReVenture West, enabling the development of the region’s largest eco-industrial park on a former 667 acre Superfund site in Charlotte. “This project is an extraordinary example of howRead the entire article…
February 10, 2013 Gaston Gazette Two local cities are making plans to team up with Charlotte to treat their wastewater rather than pay for expensive upgrades to aging wastewater treatment plants. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources will require both Mount Holly and Belmont to make significant improvements to their existing wastewater treatment plantsRead the entire article…
January 13, 2013 Greenerideal.com If all goes to plan, the city of Charlotte, NC will one day be home to an ambitious environmental initiative called ReVenture Park. The project could also become a model for innovative redevelopment of industrial brownfields. The ReVenture Park plan calls for a large renewable energy complex at a 700 acreRead the entire article…
November 29, 2012. CharlotteObserver.com The developer of Charlotte’s ReVenture Park, which last year scrapped plans for a power plant fueled by Charlotte’s garbage, now intends to build a smaller plant to run on sawdust. Mecklenburg County has issued an air-quality permit for a 1.5-megawatt combined heat and power plant, the first of its kind inRead the entire article…
October 16, 2012 A barred owl hit by a car in Mecklenburg County in June 2012 was rehabilitated at the Carolina Raptor Center and successfully released back into the wild today at ReVenture Park. The release took place within the conservation easement protected by the Catawba Lands Conservancy along the banks of the Catawba RiverRead the entire article…
October 15, 2012. Join us as a Carolina Raptor Center rehabilitated barred owl is returned to the wild along the banks of the Catawba River within the conservation easement located on ReVenture Park, Charlotte’s first Eco-Industrial Park. When: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 6pm Where: ReVenture Park – 11701 Mount Holly Road, Charlotte, NC Contact:Read the entire article…
October 10, 2012. In February 2011, the US Department of Energy (DOE) created the Asset Revitalization Initiative (ARI) to focus the Department’s efforts on the beneficial reuse of its assets at former defense nuclear sites, like the Savannah River Site (SRS) located near Aiken, SC. The SRS consists of approximately 310 square mile of federally-Read the entire article…
October 4, 2012. BiomassMagazine.com The largest biomass-based combined-heat-and-power (CHP) facility in France is now operating. Located in southwestern France at papermaker Smurfit Kappa Group LLC’s Biganos-Facture production facility, the 69 MW plant will use 503,000 metric tons (554,463 tons) of tree bark and fines from the pulp screening process to produce electricity and 260 metricRead the entire article…
October 1, 2012. Waste-Management-World.com Pompano Beach, Florida based Cyclone Power Technologies (OTCQB: CYPW), the developer of the Cyclone Engine, and waste energy power generator developer, Phoenix Power Group have integrated their technologies to create the Phoenix-10 Waste Oil Co-Generator. According to Cyclone, the integrated unit utilises Phoenix’s proprietary waste oil combustion chamber/heat exchanger (CCHX) withRead the entire article…
“ReVenture Park has the potential to jump start development of green technology and creation of green jobs in our region and become a national model.”
- Montcross Area Chamber of Commerce
