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4 unusual facts about Greenfield land


Highfield, Hertfordshire

It was constructed on a green field site as part of the construction of the postwar newtown expansion of Hemel Hempstead.

Moon Landrieu

Like his predecessor, Landrieu presided over continued suburban-style growth in the Algiers and New Orleans East districts, with Algiers essentially built-out, having exited its greenfield development stage, by the end of his administration.

Sileby

The village has expanded greatly in the past 5 years, with several hundred new houses being built, it would appear that all available land - however small - has been developed for housing in line with the prevailing government directive of using Brownfield sites before Greenfield land sites.

Toronto, Illinois

In the late 1960s, Illinois planners built a new greenfield state university adjacent to the former Toronto.


Levy County, Florida

On April 7, 2008, Progress Energy Florida of St. Petersburg announced it had authorized Shaw and Westinghouse to purchase long-lead-time materials for up to two AP1000 nuclear reactors for its Levy County plant, a greenfield plant in Levy County, producing about 1,100 MW each.

Limes Railway

Beginning in 1964 a large greenfield housing development was built on the outskirts of Schwalbach am Taunus called Limesstadt (Limes City, named after the Roman fortifications of the Limes Germanicus, which actually lay more than 10 kilometres north of this site).

Pyinmana

The administrative capital of Myanmar was officially moved to a militarized greenfield site (which the leader, Than Shwe, dubbed Naypyidaw, or Royal City) two miles (3.2 km) west of Pyinmana on November 6, 2005.


see also

Chelmer Village

The development was started by Countryside Residential PLC in 1978, using an holistic approach to create a self-contained community on previously greenfield land, of the manors of Springfield Barnes and Cuton Hall.