About Polly B. Jessen
Polly Jessen’s practice focuses on the range of contaminated property redevelopment issues, including environmental due diligence, negotiating purchase and sale agreements, cleanup plans, development agreements and environmental insurance policies, obtaining Brownfield grants and state tax credits, severed mineral interests, mine reclamation, and professional service and construction contracting. Polly advises and represents clients before regulatory agencies regarding remedy selection, administrative orders, cleanup standards, institutional controls, redevelopment, and community relations activities under voluntary cleanup agreements and regulatory orders. Polly’s clients include municipalities and quasi-governmental entities, as well as private developers, lenders, and other private entities involved in complex remediation and redevelopment projects, including the redevelopers of Central Park, Broadway Station, River Mile, and Ball Arena. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University School of Law. She speaks and publishes frequently on contaminated property redevelopment issues, construction, and the environmental and land use issues associated with severed mineral interests.
