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Brownfields Success Stories
Restoration of Kalamazoo's Former Industrial Sites Spurred by EPA Grant
Awarded by EPA in October 1996, Kalamazoo's Brownfields Pilot has helped to spur the redevelopment of numerous brownfields sites, creating hundreds of new jobs and leveraging millions of dollars in private investment. Pilot assessments of a former well field located on 17 acres of city-owned land and 18 acres of private property revealed that no cleanup would be required; the private owner already has plans to construct an aluminum recycling and processing plant on eight acres, and the city expects to sell eight acres (the remaining nine acres will be developed as greenspace due to the location of a creek and wetlands on the site) to developers. Additional sites undergoing transformation in Kalamazoo include a former railyard depot, a prime riverfront property, and an auto parts manufacturer soon to be a new office/retail/ residential site. For more information on the Kalamazoo Brownfields Pilot, contact Keary Cragan at (312) 353-5669.