Boreal Development has been working with partners over the last several years to develop a YouthBuild program, and we recently received approval of our grant to the State of Minnesota to launch our program. YouthBuild is a program for opportunity youth to build employment skills, attain their GED/diploma, and grow their leadership skills (we will continue to offer green construction training to adults as well). For YouthBuild, Boreal Development will provide construction tr

Boreal Development has taken steps recently to deepen our relationships with Duluth's building and construction trades. It is not enough for us to only teach green construction: people with a background in green construction will also need other skills that employers in the industry seek. Our partnerships with the construction trades unions will help our participants become employed and develop the skills and networks to build the housing of the future. MC3 participants at Le

Several years ago Boreal Development purchased two neighboring lots in the Irving neighborhood of Duluth. These lots are contaminated with debris, arsenic, and benzo(a)pyrene equivalent, and appear to have been the site of neighborhood dumping over the years. These will also be the site of our next net zero energy housing development, but before we can build there, we need to remediate the contamination. We applied for a Brownfield Cleanup grant from the Environmental Protect