Brownfields Supplemental Assistance Fact Sheet

PILOT SNAPSHOT
	Date of Announcement: March 2000 Amount: $100,000
Target Area: City of St. Louis, MO Profile: The Pilot will target the four-mile-long North Riverfront Industrial Corridor, an old industrial section of St. Louis that is a major focus of the city's economic development initiative.

BACKGROUND

EPA awarded the City of St. Louis supplemental assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot. Over the past 45 years, the City of St. Louis has lost half of its jobs and two-thirds of its population to areas outside St. Louis. This has resulted in urban decay and a substantial reduction in the city's tax base. The city's Land Redevelopment Authority has inventoried more than 9,000 vacant sites and 2,500 abandoned buildings. Many of the vacant sites are brownfields for which the city lacks the resources for assessment and cleanup.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

The Pilot will use supplemental assistance to expand St. Louis's brownfields initiative to the North Riverfront Industrial Corridor. The four-mile-long industrial corridor, located immediately north of downtown St. Louis, contains more than 1,400 parcels of land, 630 businesses, several dozen households, a river port, and an unknown number of brownfields. The goal of the Pilot is to encourage redevelopment of properties in the area that have been abandoned and remain undeveloped because of real or perceived environmental contamination.

To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:

. Conduct an area-wide characterization to identify potential brownfields within the corridor;

. Develop a Geographic Information System (GIS) database and map of the Pilot area to help identify potential brownfields and develop reuse plans for the area;

. Conduct Phase I and Phase II site assessments on properties targeted for development by the private sector or a government agency; and

• Conduct public outreach for corridor residents and businesses that will include holding public meetings and distributing Pilot information materials.

The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.

CONTACTS

Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 7
(913) 551-7786

Visit the EPA Region 7 Brownfields web site at: http://www.epa.gov/region7/cleanup/brownfields/index.htm

For further information, including specific Pilot contacts, additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/