This proposal for the Professional Development Fund in the amount of $2,000 seeks support for teaching and research through architectural design and development with specific attention given to historically significant sites and infrastructures that are no longer in use. In particular, the funding will provide opportunity to visit, document, and assist in reconsidering key sites and infrastructures of American history in relation to the Cold War that are no longer in operation. In or around the Chicago and Detroit areas alone are some 30 sites and connective infrastructure. Such sites include now abandoned military complexes, testing sites, and military storage facilities in the Midwest region, some of which are urban, others of which are quietly disguised in non-urban landscapes. Currently, many of these sites are vacant and thus contributing to a decaying urban fabric or idle as underused farm land, yet maintain central roles in the history of the region as well as maintain historical global implications. This research thoroughly investigates these sites through research, development, and education as proactive design disciplines to reimagine these abandoned sites. Primary consideration is given to how these sites could be potentially reused and repurposed as new models of renewable energy infrastructure, regional economic contributors, or culturally relevant sites of social experience. In this way, the funding is understood as both allocated to historical research and documentation as well as to addressing contemporary ecological, cultural, and economic issues through architectural and landscape design.