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Grant Fact Sheet
West Seattle Food
Bank, WA
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders in economic development
to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up,
and sustainably reuse brownfields. Abrownfield site is
real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse
of which may be complicated by the presence or
potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant,
or contaminant. On January 11, 2002, President George
W. Bush signed into law the Small Business Liability
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the
Brownfields Law, EPA provides financial assistance to
eligible applicants through four competitive grant
programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund
grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants. Addi-
tionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal
response programs through a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The West Seattle Food Bank (WSFB) was selected to
receive a brownfields cleanup grant. The WSFB is a
nonprofit organization that provides food assistance to
over 10,300 West Seattle residents. The target area is
the Delridge neighborhood of West Seattle, part of one
of the city's federally designated Enterprise Communi-
ties. The majority of the area's 36,134 residents have
low and moderate incomes and 55 percent are minor-
ity. The community is highly diverse, with 35 different
languages spoken in Delridge schools. Nearly 65
percent of school-aged children qualify for free or
reduced-price school lunches. Cleanup of the target
site, a 12,000-square-foot parcel adjacent to the food
bank, will allow the WSFB to expand on its vision of
Cleanup Grant
A2005
$77,145 for petroleum
EPA has selected the West Seattle Food Bank for
a brownfields cleanup grant. Grant funds will be
used to clean up petroleum-contaminated soils at
the West Seattle Community Resource Center
site located at 6500 35th Avenue. The approxi-
mately 12,000-square-foot site was used as a gas
service station from 1949 to 1969.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit
the EPA Brownfields web site at: www.epa.gov/
brownfields.
EPA Region 10 Brownfields Team
206-553-2100
http://www.epa.gov/rlOearth, click on
"Superfund", scroll down and click on
"Brownfields"
Grant Recipient: West Seattle Food Bank, WA
206-923-0917, ext. 115
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
the West Seattle Community Resource Center. The
current center includes the food bank, the community
helpline, and 14 apartment units. The addition of this
parcel will accommodate two more agencies as
permanent tenants, six other nonprofit service agen-
cies, and 20 affordable housing units. This redevelop-
ment will allow the WSFB to provide a host of services
to its clients from a single location and provide a total
of 34 affordable housing units for low-income families.
An estimated 24,000 people annually will benefit from
these services.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-05-164
May 2005
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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