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  Brownfields  2005

  Grant  Fact Sheet

   Parkhill Community,

      Inc.,  Denver,  CO


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

Parkhill Community, Inc., was selected to receive a
brownfields cleanup grant. The Northeast Parkhill
neighborhood (population 7,824) of Denver, one of the
city's three Brownfields Showcase Communities, is
located in Denver County, mid-way between down-
town Denver and the Denver International Airport.
The neighborhood is adjacent to Denver's original
municipal airport,  Stapleton International Airport. In the
1970s, the Northeast Parkhill neighborhood was
bisected by the construction of Interstate 70. It became
home to a mixture of existing residential areas and an
expanding industrial warehouse area. Since then,
property values and incomes in the area have lagged
behind the rest of Denver. When Stapleton Airport
                      Cleanup Grant
                      $200,000 for hazardous substances
                      EPA has selected Parkhill Community, Inc., for a
                      brownfields cleanup grant. Grant funds will be
                      used for landfill and soil cleanup at the Dahlia
                      Square Shopping Center, once the heart of the
                      Northeast Parkhill neighborhood. During the
                      1950s a landfill was operated on the site. Phase I
                      and II site assessments indicate the presence of
                      methane gas attributed to the landfill, chlorinated
                      solvents related to dry cleaning activities at the
                      site, and friable and non-friable asbestos in the
                      structures on the site. This aspect of the cleanup
                      is part of a $3-to-$5.5-million effort to relocate
                      remaining tenants and remediate the Dahlia
                      Square site.
                      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 8 Brownfields Team
                      303-312-6803
                      http://www.epa.gov/region08/land_waste/bfhome/
                      bfhome.html

                      Grant Recipient: Parkhill Community, Inc., CO
                      303-205-7910

                      The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
                      yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
                      in this fact sheet are subject to change.
                    closed, the neighborhood was left with numerous
                    brownfields that pose dangers to the health and
                    welfare of area residents. In the past decade, the
                    neighborhood population grew 27 percent, or 50
                    percent faster than Denver as a whole. Ninety-three
                    percent of area residents are minority. The poverty
                    rate in the area is 24 percent and the average income
                                                 Solid Waste and
                                                 Emergency Response
                                                 (5105T)
                                            EPA 560-F-05-205
                                            May 2005
                                            www.epa.gov/brownfields

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is two-thirds that of the city. Cleanup of the Dahlia
Square Shopping Center site will allow the community
to proceed with its plans to sell the property for
redevelopment into a mix of attached residential units.
senior housing, and commercial and civic facilities. This
revitalization is expected to provide jobs and market-
rate housing to a growing area of the city.

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