Follow The Money... who decides which brownfields are cleaned?

There are many big industrial sites around Cleveland I pass regularly - some are active brownfields, like the Flats, and some are abandoned. Some feature Cleveland Landbank signs and are in stages of redevelopment... the one featured here is on the West Side of Cleveland, at Bishop Road and Madison, by W. 117, and the city has clearly spent $millions clearing up this huge property of many acres.

As it is apparent so many "development" decisions in this region are made for political and corrupt freasons, and political and corrupt people are spending $millions on "landbank" and "brownfield" development around here, I am very concerned who is watching the store? Who decided this site would be cleared - who owned it and owed money on it - who paid taxes on the property or did not - who are the neighbors benefiting from this redevelopment - who will profit from the demolition, salvage and future development rights?

More important, has corruption led to wasting brownfield money on political interests rather than public interests - are the sites most dangerous to the public being addressed in priority? Any regional landbank and brownfield experts out there who can shed some light on such matters here?