Where I was born (Ostrava, a heavy industry city), there was a giant, massively polluted brownfield right next to the city centre.
It required several years of sanation works to clean up, but now it is built over and serves the needs of the population. [0]
I believe that this is a reasonable use of public money, even though private developers profit from it. Or possibly finance it through a Public-Private Partnership project.
The alternative is to let poisoned land within borders of a big city stay poisoned forever. Which does not sound either people- or environment-friendly.
It required several years of sanation works to clean up, but now it is built over and serves the needs of the population. [0]
I believe that this is a reasonable use of public money, even though private developers profit from it. Or possibly finance it through a Public-Private Partnership project.
The alternative is to let poisoned land within borders of a big city stay poisoned forever. Which does not sound either people- or environment-friendly.
[0] https://www.ostrava.cz/en/podnikatel-investor/real-estate/br...