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October 2006
BUCCINI/POLLIN GROUP HEADQUARTERS
Wilmington, DE
Assessment Grant
A Former Brownfield is Now Home
to a Successful Brownfields Developer
ADDRESS: 322 A Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
PROPERTY SIZE: 8.1 acres
FORMER USES: Scrap metal operation, automobile salvage, lumber storage,
industrial landfill
CURRENT USE: Office space and metal fabrication
EPA GRANT RECIPIENT:
PROJECT PARTNERS:
The City of Wilmington received a
$200,000 EPA Brownfields Assessment
Pilot and $200,000 in EPA Brownfields
Showcase Community funding.
Buccini/Pollin Group, Inc., Delaware Economic
Development Office, Delaware Department of
Natural Resources and Environmental Control,
Kling, Riverfront Development Corporation
Imington
For additional data and geographic
information for this and other
Brownfields Grants, please visit EPA's:
Envirofacts -
www.epa.gov/enviro/html/bms/
bms querv.html
Enviromapper - www.epa.gov/
enviro/bf
PROJECT BACKGROUND:
The property operated as a scrap metal business from 1924 to 1944 and an automobile salvage yard from 1944 to
1974. The property was also used as an industrial landfill and for lumber storage. In 2004, Phase I and Phase II
assessments of the property were conducted using $50,000 in EPA Brownfields Assessment Pilot funding from the
City of Wilmington's Office of Economic Development, which accounted for approximately half of the assessment
costs. The Buccini/Pollin Group (BPG) paid for the remaining assessment costs. The property was contaminated by
industrial fill, which included volatile organic compounds and arsenic in the soil as well as aluminum, arsenic, iron, lead,
and manganese in the ground water.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Leveraged $ 150,000 for cleanup activities and 100 jobs associated
with redevelopment.
First brownfield redevelopment project on the formerly industrial
south side of Christina River.
Used City of Wilmington economic incentives including a city property
tax abatement and a city head-tax abatement.
The architect of the new building, Kling, received the Gold Medal
Award from the American Institute of Architects Philadelphia chapter
for the building's architecture in 2005.
The completed Buccini/Pollin headquarters.
OUTCOME:
Cleanup activities were paid for by BPG and included the removal of contamination hot spots as well as the installation
of a cap. In 2004, the property received a Certificate of Completion of Remedy Site Closure from the Delaware
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. On February I 1, 2005, the grand opening was held for
the new 94,000-square foot headquarters of BPG, a commercial real estate development company that has played a
major role in the revitalization of Wilmington. The lower level of the office building houses E.J. DeSeta, a metal
fabrication operation, which connects to a mezzanine in the shop via a bridge. The upper level houses BPG
headquarters. The building's design includes the use of metal for the building exterior, and company production
capabilities were used to create many custom-designed building components and furniture.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the EPA Brownfields Web site at http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/ or call EPA Region 3 at (215) 814-5000
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