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Brownfields 2007
Grant Fact Sheet
Detroit, Ml
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders 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 City of Detroit was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant and two brownfields
cleanup grants. Located on the east coast of Michigan,
Detroit (population 900,000) is far below the state
averages for many economic indicators. The poverty
rate is 30.1 percent, and the per capita income of city
residents is 38 percent lower than the state average.
The city contains more than 1,000 brownfields that
present potential health risks and contribute to the out-
migration of residents. Detroit is focusing its assess-
ment efforts on the two-square-mile Eastern Market
Project Area, the central marketplace to the city for
more than 160 years. The Eastern Market area has a
poverty rate of 43 percent. More than 84 percent of
residents are African-American. The assessment of
potentially contaminated sites in the Eastern Market
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the City of Detroit for a
brownfields assessment grant. Hazardous sub-
stances grant funds will be used to conduct 20
Phase I and eight Phase II environmental site
assessments in the Eastern Market Project Area.
Funds also will be used for community outreach
activities.
Cleanup Grants
$400,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the City of Detroit for two
brownfields cleanup grants. Grant funds will be
used to clean up the Sears Retail Store and Auto
Service Center site at 10750 Grand River Avenue
and the Globe Building at 1801 -1803 Atwater
Street. The sites were used for a variety of
industrial and commercial purposes, including
automobile repair, railroad operations, and clean-
ers. They are contaminated with metals, volatile
organic compounds, and other hazardous sub-
stances. Funds also will be used for community
outreach activities.
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 5 Brownfields Team
312-886-7576
http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/
Grant Recipient: City of Detroit, MI
313-471-5108
The information presented in this fact sheet comes
from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
accuracy of this information. The cooperative
agreement for the grant has not yet been negoti-
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-07-041
August 2007
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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area will help the city move forward with its plans to
make it a more attractive district for economic devel-
opment. The two sites targeted for cleanup are in
neighborhoods where 64 to 97 percent of residents are
African-American. When these two sites are cleaned
up, the city plans to develop a senior citizen residential
complex and retrofit a historic building into a mixed
commercial and residential development.
ated. Therefore, activities described in this fact
sheet are subject to change.
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