2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 16 May 2007 15:07:44 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Denver (CO) receives EPA grant for 10th and Osage site
 
Press Release
U.S. EPA
May 14, 2007

EPA grant to boost revitalization at 10th and Osage in Denver

Brownfields cleanup grant will make way for transit-oriented redevelopment in Denver's La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood


(Denver, Colo. -- May 14, 2007) A project to clean up contaminated property at 10th and Osage Street in Denver has been awarded a $200,000 EPA Brownfields cleanup grant. This project is one of 294 in 38 states, two territories and five tribal nations that will share more than $70 million in Brownfields grants. This funding will help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use.


"By transforming thousands of blighted sites into engines of economic rebirth, EPA's Brownfields program is proving to be one of the greatest environmental success stories of the past decade," said Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. "These grants build on the Bush Administration's commitment of handing down a healthier, more prosperous future to the next generation of Americans."

...

The City and County of Denver will receive a Brownfields cleanup grant for a 2.5-acre parcel at 10th and Osage Street. The site is currently contaminated with arsenic and polycrilic aromatic hydrocarbons from former railroad operations. Located in the La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood, the property is adjacent to 270 affordable housing units owned by the Denver Housing Authority and a light rail station. Cleanup of the site will allow Denver to move forward with plans to create a transit-oriented development center in this low-income neighborhood. This redevelopment is expected to increase economic activity in the neighborhood, bringing new jobs to the community and increasing the tax base.

...

For the entire press release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/d6e45625348afc24852572db0078b7e6?OpenDocument

For Lenny Siegel's recent report on this site, see
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/OsageMercado.doc

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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