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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
EPA 560-F-12-008
March 2012
CHANUTE MOVIE THEATER
City of Chanute, KS
Section 128(a) and Assessment Grants
Now Playing in Chanute, Kansas: The Roxy Movie Theater
ADDRESS: 302 E. Main Street, Chanute, Kansas 66720
PROPERTY SIZE: 0.42 acres
FORMER USES: Gas station, Lumber Yard, Radiator Shop,
Taxi Stand, and Used car lot
CURRENT USE: Four-plex movie theater
EPA GRANT RECIPIENT:
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
utilized $20,375.65 in EPA Brownfields Section
128(a) State & Tribal funding/Targeted Brown-
fields Assessment funding
PROJECT PARTNERS:
City of Chanute, Kansas;
Kansas Department of
Health and Environment
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The completed Four-plex movie theater.
PROJECT BACKGROUND:
The City of Chanute, Kansas owned the 0.42-acre property, but was unable to develop it because of concerns
about potential contamination. Over the years, the site housed a gas station, a lumber yard, a radiator shop, a
taxi stand, a used car lot, and most recently a parking lot. Private developers refused to accept the property,
leaving the City with the blighted parking lot in their historic downtown area.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• Sampling found relatively little soil and groundwater contamination, which was addressed through
institutional controls
• Redeveloped the vacant site into a new, four-plex movie theater
• 20 jobs and more than $2,175,000 in redevelopment funding leveraged
OUTCOME:
EPA provided two grants to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to assist with the
assessment and cleanup activities at the site. During the Phase I assessment phase, KDHE identified both on-
site and off-site sources of potential contamination. The Phase II testing involved soil and groundwater testing.
Results were encouraging - while the soil and groundwater had petroleum contamination above state levels
for residential reuse, the levels were below the threshold for non-residential uses. In October 2006, the City
placed institutional controls on the property that prohibited future residential use and limited groundwater use,
clearing the way for redevelopment. A few short months later, in March 2007, the new Roxy movie theater
opened.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the EPA Brownfields Web site at www.epa.gov/Region 7/brownfields/ or call EPA Region 7 at (9 I 3) 55 I -7003
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/
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