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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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