United States
                      Environmental
                      Protection Agency
                      Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5105)
EPA 500-F-00-258
December 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
    &EPA    Brownfields Assessment
                      Demonstration  Pilot
                                                            New Haven,  CT
 Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
                   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. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected
by brownfields to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental
field; and, cleanup revolving loan fund programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans for the environmental cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs 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.
BACKGROUND

EPA selected the City ofNew Haven for a Brownfields
Pilot.  New Haven (population 130,474) contains
approximately 130 acres of industrial land with known
or suspected contamination  that are occupied by
outmoded or abandoned factories. A recent study
showed that 22 of these properties, representing 82
acres, would be suitable  for redevelopment if site
cleanup were achieved. The brownfields hinder the
city from generating property tax revenue, creating
jobs for residents of the federally designated Enterprise
Community, mitigating environmental health risks,
and abating crime and drug abuse. More than 1,000
jobs andmillions of dollars in new property taxes could
be generated from redevelopment of high-priority
brownfields.

OBJECTIVES

New Haven's overall vision for its brownfields program
includes assessing and planning the cleanup of
contaminated  sites, encouraging  economic
development and job creation,  maintaining  and
augmenting the city's tax base, collecting delinquent
taxes, alleviating blight, and improving security in the
city. The Pilotwill assist with this vision by helpingto
develop cleanup plans, determining whether buildings
PILOTSNAPSHOT
  New Haven, Connecticut
                      Date of Announcement:
                      September 1996

                      Amount: $267,000

                      Profile: The Pilot targets
                      six brownfields sites on
                      former industrial land
                      occupied by outmoded or
                      abandoned factories.
Contacts:
Office of Business Development
(203)946-5889
  U.S. EPA - Region 1
  (617)918-1210
     Visit the EPA Region 1 Brownfields web site at:
      http://www.epa.gov/region01/remed/brnfld/

   For further information, including specific Pilot contacts,
 additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
 publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
         http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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should be demolished or renovated, and allowing the
city  to  work with  local business and  financial
communities to promote brownfields redevelopment.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS ANDACTIVITIES

The Pilot has:

• Created an inventory of 12 properties and targeted
 six (Hamilton  Street, Winchester Avenue, Spring
 Street, Dixwell Avenue, Grand Avenue,  and
 Truman);

• Completed a Phase II assessment at the 2-acre, 133
 Hamilton  Street site;

• Conducted a lead paint and asbestos investigation at
 the  11-acre,  1 million  square-foot Winchester
 Avenue facility; and

• Begun environmental assessments at the  Spring
 Street  and Dixwell Street properties.

The Pilot is:

• Continuing to prioritize brownfields throughout the
 city for site assessment and identifying potential
 developers to assist in prioritization;

• Addressingpropertytransferissues so that concerns
 aboutmunicipal and developer liability do not impede
 reuse;  and

• Determining whether additional brownfields sites
 require cleanup, determining the extent of cleanup
 needed, and calculating demolition and/or renovation
 costs.

LEVERAGING OTHER ACTIVITIES

Experience  with the New Haven Pilot has been a
catalyst for related activities, including the following:

• Phase I and II environmental assessments, as well
 as a lead and asbestos investigation, were completed
 forthe Truman Street site using city and state funds.

• The Truman Street site has been cleaned up and
 redeveloped into amixed retail business. Ten retail
 jobs have  been created.
• Environmental assessment was completed at the
 Grand Avenue site with $35-40,000 of city and state
 funds.

• Asbestos and lead paint cleanup of the Winchester
 Avenue site was completed using $5 million in state
 funds. In addition, the current property owner paid
 for subsurface cleanup of the site.

• Atotal of $7,665,000 in cleanup funding and $200,000
 in redevelopment funding has been leveraged.

• In 1999, the Department of Housing and Urban
 Development awardedNew Haven $1.49 million in
 Brownfields Economic  Development  Initiative
 funding to redevelop the former New Haven Clock
 Company site on Hamilton Street ($490,000 in grant
 funding and $1 million in loan guarantees). HUD
 funds will be used for cleanup of the site, partial
 building demolition, site preparation, and construction
 of a 30,000 square-foot addition to Palmieri Food
 Products, Inc., an adjacent food manufacturing
 company.   Palmieri  Food  Products will spend
 $200,000 to equip the additional plant space. This
 project will result in the retention of 25 jobs and the
 creation of another 20 jobs.
 Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot
 December 2000
                          New Haven, Connecticut
                               EPA 500-F-00-258

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