Brownfields Area-Wide Plannini
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Pilot Project Fact Sheet
Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation,
San Diego, CA
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communi-
ties, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent,
assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brown-
fields. A brownfield 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. In 2002, the Small
Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization
Act was passed to help states and communities around
the country clean up and revitalize brownfields sites. Un-
der this law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible
applicants to assess and clean up brownfield sites.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot
Program
EPA is piloting an area-wide planning approach to com-
munity brownfield challenges, which recognizes that
revitalization of the area surrounding the brownfield site(s)
is just as critical to the successful reuse of the property as
assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of an individual
site. The pilot program will help further community-based
partnership efforts within underserved or economically
disadvantaged neighborhoods by confronting local envi-
ronmental and public health challenges related to brown-
fields, while creating a planning framework to advance
economic development and job creation.
Pilot Project Description
EPA has selected the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood
Innovation as a Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot
Program recipient. The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood
Innovation will focus its project on The Village at Market
Creek, an underused, brownfields-impacted area in the
center of the Diamond Neighborhoods of southeastern
San Diego. The Diamond Neighborhoods are economi-
cally distressed, highly diverse communities of 84,300
residents. The unemployment rate in southeastern San
Diego is estimated to be 20 percent. Median incomes are
Pilot Program Description '
EPA is awarding approximately $4
million in total across 23 recipients.
Recipients will each receive up to ap-
proximately $175,000 in EPA cooperative
agreement and/or direct technical assistance.
Assistance will help recipients initiate develop-
ment of an area-wide plan and identify next steps and
resources needed to implement the plan.
Contacts
For additional information, brownfields news and
events, and publications and links, visit the EPA
Brownfields Web site (http://www.epa.aov/brownfieldsy
EPA's Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
(202) 566-0633
Assistance Recipient:
Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, CA
(619)527-6161
The information presented in this fact sheet comes
from the project proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
accuracy of this information. The cooperative agreement
and/or direct technical assistance have not yet been
negotiated. Activities described in this fact sheet are
subject to change.
half of the countywide average. At least 12 sites in The
Village are suspected to be contaminated brownfields.
The area-wide planning process will incorporate input
from community planning partners on brownfields site
reuse priorities and adequacy of infrastructure to support
those reuses. As a result of the area-wide plan, brown-
fields cleanup and reuse will be addressed in the Cultural
Village Plan for the Village at Market Creek, already in
development.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-10-003B
October 2010
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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