Even though the recession has been over for a long time, it is still preventing developers from remediating brownfield sites. Experts, however say, “now is the time . . . now is the time . . . now is the time” to learn about filling out paperwork so the nation’s 450,000 brownfields may be converted to job-creating tax revenue generators. Federal grants for paperwork and cleanup are available, as well as tax breaks and state-provided liability protection. Since the recovery began, more than thirty applications for assistance remediating North Carolina brownfields have been pursued. Most of the applicants are municipalities with healthy bank accounts. Evil bankers these days are not blowing a lot of money out their ears for high-risk development loans.