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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