United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA500-F-97-061
May 1997
Regional Brownfields
Assessment Pilot
Oakland, CA
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5101)
Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower States, communities, and other
stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and
sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and
an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. Between 1995 and 1996, EPA funded 76 National and Regional Brownfields
Assessment Pilots, at up to $200,000 each, to support creative two-year explorations and demonstrations of brownfields
solutions. EPAis funding morethan 27 Pilots in 1997. The Pilots are intended to provide EPA, States, Tribes, municipalities,
and communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods to promote a unified
approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
PILOT
EPA Region 9 selected the City of Oakland for a
Regional Brownfields Pilot. Oakland selected two
brownfields sites as catalyst sites for other
redevelopment projects in Oakland's commercial
and industrial centers. The Central District
Redevelopment Area is a 2-acre site. The other site
is a 17-acre portion of the Coliseum Redevelopment
Area of East Oakland. During the past two decades
over 20,000 manufacturingjobs have been lost in the
Coliseum Area due to plant closure and relocation.
Over 600 acres in the Coliseum Area have been
vacated or are under-used, and over 700 sites have
been identified as having known or suspected
hazardous ortoxic contamination. Mostofthe Coliseum
Area is within a federally-designated Enhanced
Enterprise Community.
In April 1997, an additional $100,000 was added to
the Pilot grant which will be used to encourage
brownfields revitalization of the redevelopment of
the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) areas' s
Transit Village project. This large-scale development
project is designed to revitalize the neighborhood
with shops, offices, and housing in a pedestrian-
oriented setting. This is a local, community-driven
project for which EPA is partnering with the
Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), the Department of Health and Human Services
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Oakland, California
Date of Award:
September 1996
Amount: $200,000
Site Profile: The Pilot
targets the redevelopment
of two sites in the Central
District Redevelopment
Area (2 acres) and the
Coliseum Redevelopment
Area (17 acres).
Contacts:
Jeffrey Chew
Oakland Office of
Economic Development
and Employment
(510)238-3629
Wally Woo
U.S. EPA-Region 9
(415)744-1207
woo.wallace@
epamail.epa.gov
Visit the EPA Brownfields Website at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields
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(HHS), and the Department of Transportation (DOT)
as well as private entities to redevelop this multi-
cultural area.
OBJECTIVES
The Oakland Pilot is seeking to revitalize the
contaminated properties in the Central District
Redevelopment and Coliseum Redevelopment Areas
as well as the Fruitvale BART Station area. The
major focus of the Pilot will be on completing Phase
IT site assessments and remediation planning. This
information will assist Oakland's Redevelopment
Agency in developing a strategy for redevelopment
of the sites.
AND
The Pilot is:
* Reviewing existing data on two sites and completing
site assessments;
* Completing health and safety plans, site surveys, and
risk assessments, and preparing summary reports of
the findings and recommendations; and
* Developing remedial plans and cost estimates.
Regional Brownfields Assessment Pilot Oakland, California
May 1997 EPA 500-F-97-061
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