&EPA
                                                                                          EPA-560-F-10-225
                                                                                                  July 2010
PHILLIPS TO THE FALLS
                                                              Sioux Falls, South Dakota
                                                          Assessment and Cleanup Grants
                     Former Industrial Corridor Transformed into
               a  Recreational Centerpiece for the City of Sioux Falls
    ADDRESS:
    PROPERTY SIZE:
    FORMER USES:
General industrial corridor, north of downtown Sioux Falls, SD
26 acres
Scrap metal salvage, rail, lead-acid battery storage,
miscellaneous industry
    CURRENT USES: A recreational city park and updated transportation corridor
    EPA GRANT RECIPIENT:
    The City of Sioux Falls received a $200,000 Brownfields
    Assessment grant in 1996, a $200,000 Showcase Community
    Finalist award, and a $200,000 Brownfields Cleanup grant in 2004.
                               PROJECT PARTNERS:
                               South Dakota Department
                               of Environment and
                               Natural Resources
                                                                                          tt\
                                                                          Sioux Falls *
For additional data and geographic information for this and
other Brownfields Grants, please visit EPA's Cleanups in
My Community - http://iaspub.epa.gov/Cleanups/
   PROJECT BACKGROUND:
   For years, an approximately 26-acre area located between downtown Sioux Falls and Falls Park (a recreational
   city park) had been passed over for redevelopment due to contamination uncertainties. The property had
   been used for more than a half-century for lead-acid battery storage and scrap metal salvaging, and included
   a rail yard and a roundhouse. An EPA Brownfields Assessment Pilot awarded to Sioux Falls in 1996 confirmed
   the presence of heavy metals and organic chemicals, and helped the city to resolve land acquisition issues and
   develop a cleanup plan.

   KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

   •   Performed a detailed environmental investigation of the entire
       project area through the Assessment Pilot and Showcase
       Community Funding.
   •  Assisted the city in resolving land acquisition issues and in
       developing and implementing a cleanup plan.
   •   Leveraged a more than $900,000 cleanup effort that involved the
       removal of contaminated soil and capping of selected areas.
                                                                    ^^K__fl
   OUTCOME*                                                              Falls Park was expanded all the way to
            '                                                             downtown Sioux Falls through this project.
   Modifications to newly-expanded Falls Park continue as part of the Falls Park Masterplan and  most recently
   included the completion of a decorate archway, gazebos, an outdoor sculpture garden, and additional
   landscaping. Two declining historic warehouse buildings were rehabilitated in anticipate of the city's "Phillips
   to the Falls"  project, and since then four additional historic buildings  have been rehabilitated with the intent of
   additional private development occurring. The revitalization generated by this project has increased retail and
   office uses in the north end of Sioux Falls' downtown district.
     FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the EPA Brownfields Web site at http://www.epa.gov/brownfields or call EPA Region 8 at (303) 312-6803

-------