Bridgeport, CT
SEAVIEW INDUSTRIAL PARK  - BUNNELL BLOCK       RevolvingLoan Fund Grant
                               Blighted Neighborhood Makeover:
                       Revamping Industry in the City of Bridgeport
     ADDRESS:          440 & 480 Bunnell Street, Bridgeport, CT 06607
     PROPERTY SIZE:      4.04 acres
     FORMER USES:       Plastic manufacturer and industrial
     CURRENT USES:      Industrial  park
     EPA GRANT RECIPIENT:
     The City of Bridgeport provided a
     $350,000 Brownfields Cleanup
     Revolving Loan Fund loan to the
     Bridgeport Economic Development
     Corporation  (BEDCO) for cleanup
     activities at two properties in the
     Seaview Industrial Park.
PROJECT PARTNERS:
City of Bridgeport; Grow Bridgeport
Fund, LLC; State of Connecticut
Department of Economic and Community
Development (DECD); Economic
Development Administration (EDA); and
Bridgeport Economic Development
Corporation (BEDCO)
                                                                                    CONNECTICUT
         Bridgeport
For additional data and geographic information for this
and other Brownfields Grants, please visit EPA's:
Envirofacts - www.epa.gov/enviro/html/bms/bms query.html
Enviromapper - www.epa.gov/enviro/bf
    PROJECT BACKGROUND:
    The Seaview Industrial Park once housed various manufacturing companies as well as residences. Since the early 1990s,
    Bridgeport lost a major section of its manufacturing industry to overseas competition, resulting in a 50 percent reduction in
    manufacturing jobs and an increase in abandoned properties and blighted neighborhoods. The EPA Brownfields funding was
    used to address the 4.04-acre Bunnell Block of the Seaview Industrial Park, which consists of two properties: an abandoned
    industrial building and the Enterprise Plastics manufacturing company. A Phase II environmental site assessment of the two
    properties  in 2002 found petroleum, lead and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contamination in the soil.

                                           KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
                                            •   Removed  120 tons  of contaminated soil
                                            •   Leveraged $7.8 million for cleanup and redevelopment activities;
                                               $6 million in  redevelopment funding leveraged through the sale of
                                               Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs)
                                            •   Leveraged 230 jobs for cleanup and redevelopment activities

        The Seaview Industrial Park during construction.

    OUTCOME:
    The two blighted buildings  were demolished and  120 tons of hazardous materials and 1,145 tons of non-hazardous
    materials were removed from the two properties. Cleanup of the properties was completed in February 2005. The
    Seaview Industrial Park is projected to be completed in 2008 and will consist  of eight build-to-suit  light industrial buildings.
    It will  leverage an additional 100 new jobs and $2  million in annual payroll. Only two of the eight properties located in the
    Seaview Industrial Park were addressed by the EPA Brownfields funding. Currently, one of the properties is  being built and
    the other is still finalizing reconstruction plans. The redevelopment  of the Seaview Industrial Park positively affects the
    community by removing blight, improving roads, and upgrading the sewer and water systems, ultimately creating an
    aesthetically pleasing industrial neighborhood admired by the community.
    FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the EPA Brownfields Web site at http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/ or call EPA Region I at (617) 918-1 I 11

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