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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Program Success Stories
Vineyard Town Homes • Anaheim, CA
Home Sweet Homes in Anaheim
Property Size:
Former Uses:
Project Description
Property Address: 385 South Vine Street,
Anaheim, CA 92805
2 acres
Commercial, industrial, bulk
petroleum product storage,
residential
Contaminants Found: Petroleum, volatile organic
compounds (VOCs),
lead, polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Affordable housing
Anaheim Housing Authority
Current Use:
Current Owner:
Project Partners
• Anaheim Redevelopment Agency
• Anaheim Housing Authority
• City of Anaheim
• HUD
• U.S. EPA
• Mercy Housing Corporation
Property History
This two-acre property was assembled from four
separate parcels that had been purchased by the
Anaheim Redevelopment Agency (ARA) for this
project from approximately 2002 to 2004. These
individual sites had mixed uses, primarily industrial,
dating back to 1907. A series of assessments
conducted by the ARA during property assembly
confirmed that some of those prior uses—which
included the bulk storage of petroleum products—
had contaminated the assembled site's soil with
petroleum, lead, VOCs and PAHs. With a plan to turn
the assembled property into an affordable housing
development, the ARA needed to clean up this site to
residential standards.
The completed Vineyard Town Homes Complex
Highlights
• One of the first successful projects under the ARA's
Affordable Housing Strategic Plan
• The ARA combined idle properties with contamination
issues into a cleaned, residential complex, in a city
where space for residential development is limited
• Utilized a variety of federal and state resources to
provide the funding needed for redevelopment
Drivers for Redevelopment
Providing affordable housing had long been a priority
for both the ARA and the City of Anaheim; the city
had sponsored a substantial number of multifamily
developments and been offering rental assistance
program vouchers to more than 6,000 residents at the
time of the property's purchase and assembly. The
city created a new "Affordable Housing Strategic
Plan" and intended to redevelop this property into
more affordable housing as the first project under
that Plan. In 2003, the ARA received a $1,450,000
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund (RLF)
grant from EPA, which was seen as a way to initiate
cleanup and prepare the property for redevelopment.
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Project Results
In 2006, the ARA conveyed ownership of the property
to the Anaheim Housing Authority (AHA), then
provided nearly $195,000 from EPA's RLF grant
to prepare the site for redevelopment. The City of
Anaheim contributed an additional $355,000 toward
cleanup, which involved the removal of 385 tons of
contaminated soil and installation of vapor barriers
to ensure long-term safety. These efforts cleared the
way for a $17.5 million redevelopment project that
provided 160 construction jobs and created a 60-
unit, affordable housing complex that is now home
to more than 200 residents, all of whom earn less
than 60 percent of the area's median income. As
expected, this project—known as the Vineyard Town
Home development—became the first success under
the city's Affordable Housing Strategic Plan. The
land was leased by the AHA to a nonprofit housing
corporation for a 55-year term; the AHA and the ARA
will recapture project costs through the resulting land
lease payments and associated future revenues.
Funding Information
$190,332 Environmental assessments, from the
Anaheim Redevelopment Agency
$194,926 Cleanup, as a sub-grant from EPA's 2003
Brownfields Cleanup RLF grant
$355,008 Cleanup from the Anaheim Redevelopment
Agency (under Housing Set-Aside Funds)
$17,517,577 Bulk of funding received from federal
and state low-income housing tax credits
obtained by the developer. Additional
funding came from the HUD Home
Investment Partnerships Program.
Project Timeline
2002-2004 The ARA purchases adjacent industrial
parcels for assembly; assessments begin on
the assembled parcels
2006 Property transferred to the AHA; cleanup
begins
2007 Cleanup completed; redevelopment begins
2008 Redevelopment completed; the new
Vineyard Town Home Development opens
For additional information, please contact:
Clare Fletcher • Community Development Manager • Anaheim Redevelopment Agency • (714) 765-4337
cfletcher@anaheim.net
Brownfields Region 9 Success Story
Vineyard Town Homes, Anaheim, CA
April 2011
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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