BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Local politicians, city staff and developers traded information about brownfields with each other and the public in a community update Thursday on the city’s quest to clean up and revitalize old industrial sites.

“Why is it taking so long?” Steve Charest, president of King and Benton Redevelopment Corp., which has converted and revamped a number of city sites, wanted to know of a community improvement plan the city began writing nearly two years ago but hasn’t implemented yet.

That plan contains the approach the city wants to take in cleanup and redevelopment and an arsenal of incentives for developers who join public-private partnership, such as tax credits.