Discovering Sites

One of the ways to think about the work of the MDC is as a place that helps communities discover sites they didn't know they had. The work we have done on covering depressed highways with green "lids" that create open space above the highway roadbed and development opportunities on the adjacent land is one example of that. We are also looking at how communities - from municipalities to entire counties - can better utilize the underused public lands that they control for everything from eco-services to affordable housing development to new kinds of mixed-use complexes to improve the social, environmental, and economic health of a place. There are so many sites to discover right in front of us, and the MDC hopes to reveal as many of them as possible.