Environmental Challenges of Urban Real Estate: Building on Old Landfills
Urban areas like Dallas and Fort Worth have a range of environmental concerns that may hamper deal-making for real estate professionals. Whitehead E. S. specializes in real estate deals on contaminated properties such as filling stations, dry cleaners, and even properties located on old closed landfills. Problems associated with building on landfill sites In Dallas, land west of IH-35 was historically used for sand and gravel mining, which was then filled in with soil, demolition
Subchapter T: To Permit or Not To Permit, That is the Question
Whitehead E. S. routinely works with buyers/sellers of commercial real estate on a full range of environmental concerns. In Dallas, this includes building structures on closed landfills. In many cases, the former landfill was an unknown that was identified or suspected in the Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA). This is especially the case along IH-35 in Dallas moving north to Lewisville where much of the area was formerly used for sand and gravel mining. The former pits