The staff at Credere Associates, LLC believe that the path to true prosperity is realized when you combine Community Revitalization, Economic Development, and Environmental Remediation and Engineering: the acronym Credere. 

Credere is a women-owned business that specializes in redevelopment planning, engineering, hydrogeology, and environmental sciences.  Credere’s goal is to provide services that positively impact the community, the economy, and the environment using Smart Growth principles.  Credere has extensive experience in completing long-term, sustainable Brownfields Programs including planning, environmental  assessment, remediation and redevelopment engineering in support of development and redevelopment projects.

Credere’s Portland, ME office was originally formed in 1989 as Environmental Engineering and Remediation, Inc. (EER) and subsequently acquired by Aquarion Engineering Services in 2001, Edwards and Kelcey in 2005, and Jacobs Edwards and Kelcey in the spring of 2007.  In the fall of 2007, Rip and Theresa Patten acquired the Portland, Maine office of Jacobs Edwards and Kelcey and incorporated Credere. Credere also opened an office in Dover, New Hampshire office the same year, and early in 2008 relocated the Dover office to Gilford, New Hampshire.