GREEN CITY LOFTS
Emeryville, CA
Revolving Loan Fund Grant
Living the Green Life in Emeryville
ADDRESS: 41 st and Adeline Streets, Emeryville, CA 94608
PROPERTY SIZE: I acre
FORMER USE: Paint manufacturing
CURRENT USE: Green building with 62 housing units
EPA GRANT RECIPIENT:
This City of Emeryville received a
$500,000 EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan
Fund (RLF) grant as well as $ 1,732,000 in
supplemental EPA Brownfields RLF funding.
PROJECT PARTNERS:
City of Oakland, Green City LLC,
Alameda County Department of
Environmental Health, Green Fusion
Design Center
For additional data and geographic information
for this and other Brownfields Grants, please
visit EPA's:
Envirofacts - vyww.epa.gov/enviro/html/bms/
bms query.html
Enviromapper - www.epa.gov/enviro/bf
PROJECT BACKGROUND:
In July 2003, the City of Emeryville provided $1,175,000 in EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan Funds to Green City LLC to assist with
cleanup costs associated with the Green City Lofts property. Between approximately 1923 and 1991, the property was used for paint
manufacturing, and it was also used as a warehouse between approximately 1991 and 2000. Due to the former on-site paint factory, the
soil was contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. The property's ground water was also contaminated with petroleum
hydrocarbons due to a neighboring paint factory.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• Recycled 94.7 percent of building demolition debris.
• Up to 25 percent of the concrete foundation's cement is fly ash, a recycled
material from coal power plant smokestacks that improves concrete quality.
• All units have access to natural lighting and cross-ventilation of bay breezes,
and nearly one-third have windows on three sides, reducing heating and
cooling costs.
• Leveraged $200,000 and 20 jobs for cleanup as well as $ 19 million for
redevelopment activities.
• Proclaimed the greenest multifamily development in the city by Oakland
Mayor Jerry Brown.
The completed Green City Lofts.
OUTCOME:
The project involved the deconstruction of the 80-year-old abandoned paint factory building and a warehouse. Cleanup included soil
remediation and was completed in December 2004. Construction then began on the new Green City Lofts, which includes an
underground parking garage and 62 residential units in five buildings. The property straddles the Emeryville-Oakland border, with 3 I
units in each city. The project followed the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards,
using recycled building materials and local/regional materials. The project also used energy and water efficient technologies, such as
collecting water runoff for use in landscape irrigation and providing wiring in the parking garage to accommodate electric motor
vehicles. Green City Lofts included six affordable housing units.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the EPA Brownfields Web site at http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/ or call EPA Region 9 at (415) 972-3092
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