004981 - EDCA Brownfield Eng

Oakland County communities, developers, and property owners have a number of community and economic development tools at their disposal. The following tools may be used to develop a district, board, and possible funding mechanisms for improvements, development and redevelopment projects.​
The Brownfield Redevelopment Authority (BRA) is the administrative board advancing the goals and accomplishing the tasks identified for the Oakland County Brownfield Initiative.​

Brownfield Redevelopment Authority
The Brownfield Redevelopment Authority (BRA) is the administrative board advancing the goals and accomplishing the tasks identified for the Oakland County Brownfield Initiative. Oakland County

Brownfield Redevelopment Authority is utilized specifically:
​To assist key developments in communities that may be averse to establishing their own BRA as part of the county's ongoing economic development efforts and/or to protect key environmental assets
To assist specific developments in communities that may have few parcels or limited capacity to administer a redevelopment project
To systematically administer and redevelop tax reverted property that the county may come to own
Under state law, a BRA is required to access certain financing incentives and tax increment financing to recover remediation expenses. BRAs allow for the development of a revolving loan fund and a means for recovering administrative costs of the BRA.​