Brownfield Redevelopment Financing & Transformational Brownfield Plans

Current understanding

The Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act (1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2652 et seq.) authorizes local brownfield redevelopment authorities to capture tax increment revenues to finance environmental remediation and redevelopment of contaminated, blighted, or functionally obsolete property, and includes a ‘transformational brownfield plan’ framework for large mixed-use projects that can capture certain state tax revenues. Michigan SB 0723 (103rd Legislature) amends sections 2, 14a, and 16 of the Act to modify provisions governing transformational brownfield plans and redevelopment authorities; the bill has passed one chamber. Specific changes to definitions, plan approval procedures, and authority powers remain to be recorded from the enrolled text.

Evidence log

• 2026-07-29 — Economic development: brownfield redevelopment authority; brownfield redevelopment financing act; amend to exempt museum authorities. Amends sec. 2 of 1996 PA 381 (MCL 125.2652). TIE BAR WITH: SB 1139’26, SB 1141’26: SB 1140 (tie-barred with SB 1139 and SB 1141) would amend sec. 2 of the Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act (1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2652) to exempt museum authorities from the act’s definitions and financing framework; introduced. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-29 — Economic development: brownfield redevelopment authority; transformational brownfield plan; modify. Amends secs. 2, 13c, 14a & 16 of 1996 PA 381 (MCL 125.2652 et seq.) & adds secs.16a & 16b.: SB 723 (enacted) amends secs. 2, 13c, 14a, and 16 of 1996 PA 381 and adds new secs. 16a and 16b to modify transformational brownfield plan rules under the Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-17 — Economic development: brownfield redevelopment authority; environmental brownfield redevelopment program; modify. Amends secs. 19608a, 19608b, 19609, 19610, 19610a, 19611, 19612, 19613, 20108b & 21506a of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.19608a et seq.) & adds pt. 192.: cross-connection with environmental-brownfield-redevelopment-nrepa: Two distinct Michigan brownfield statutes are being updated together: the NREPA environmental cleanup/liability program (SB 0898) and the Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act’s transformational brownfield plans (SB 0723), together forming a paired revision of Michigan’s brownfield legal framework. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-02 — Economic development: plant rehabilitation; industrial facility tax; modify. Amends secs. 3, 6, 7 & 9 of 1974 PA 198 (MCL 207.553 et seq.).: cross-connection with industrial-facilities-tax-act: SB 0793 (Industrial Facilities Tax Act amendments) moves in tandem with SB 0723 (brownfield/transformational brownfield plans) as coordinated updates to Michigan’s redevelopment incentive framework. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-02 — Economic development: obsolete property and rehabilitation; obsolete property rehabilitation act; modify. Amends secs. 2, 6, 7, 14, 16 & 17 of 2000 PA 146 (MCL 125.2782 et seq.).: cross-connection with obsolete-property-rehabilitation-act: SB 0792’s amendments to obsolete property rehabilitation move together with SB 0723’s brownfield transformational plan amendments, forming a coordinated update to Michigan’s redevelopment incentive statutes. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-03 — Economic development: brownfield redevelopment authority; transformational brownfield plan; modify. Amends secs. 2, 14a & 16 of 1996 PA 381 (MCL 125.2652 et seq.).: cross-connection with commercial-rehabilitation-act: SB 0722 (Commercial Rehabilitation Act amendments) and SB 0723 (Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act amendments) appear to be moving as a paired economic-development redevelopment incentive package in the 103rd Legislature. (novelty: 2)

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