Patent ID: 7346572

Claim:
A method for managing a Brownfields fund, comprising: storing in a computer system information relating to the Brownfields fund; accepting investor capital from at least one investor into the Brownfields fund; storing information in the computer system relating to the at least one investor, the stored information including investor identification information, investment amounts, and terms of investments; storing information in the computer system concerning an entity and a Brownfields project, the entity having an ownership interest in the Brownfields; approving the entity and the Brownfields project for financing with investment capital from the Brownfields fund according to select criteria using the information stored in the computer system concerning the entity and the Brownfields project; and providing the investment capital from the Brownfields fund to the approved entity to at least partially finance the approved Brownfields project without taking any ownership interest in the approved Brownfields project, the approved entity being provided the investment capital using at least some of the investor capital from the at least one investor.