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\ Brownfields 2017 Area-Wide Planning Grant Fact Sheet
Near East Area Renewal, Indianapolis, IN
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities,
and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess,
safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A
brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment,
or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or
potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or
contaminant. In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help states and
communities around the country clean up and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial
assistance to eligible applicants through competitive grant
programs for brownfields site assessment, site cleanup,
revolving loan funds, area-wide planning, and job training.
Additional funding support is provided to state and tribal
response programs through a separate mechanism.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program
EPA's Brownfields Area-Wide Planning
Program assists communities in responding
to local brownfields challenges,
particularly where multiple brownfield
sites are in close proximity, connected by
infrastructure, and limit the economic,
environmental and social prosperity of
their surroundings. This program enhances
EPA's core brownfields assistance
programs by providing grant funding to
communities so they can perform the
research needed to develop an area-wide
plan and implementation strategies for
brownfields assessment, cleanup, and
reuse. The resulting area-wide plans
provide direction for future brownfields
area improvements that are protective of
public health and the environment,
economically viable, and reflective of the
community's vision for the area.
Project Description
$200,000.00
EPA has selected Near East Area Renewal as a
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant recipient.
Near East Area Renewal will work with the
community and other stakeholders to develop an
area-wide plan and implementation strategy for
the 3,600-acre urban district federally designated
as the Indy East Promise Zone. This area was
home to several industrial and manufacturing
facilities that are currently vacant or underused.
These sites hinder economic development and
pose serious health risks to the community. The
former Thompson Electronics/former GE
Sherman Park, the catalyst site for this project, is a
45-acre industrial site located in the heart of the
project area. It has strong reuse potential, and its
revitalization is expected to leverage
redevelopment in the project area. Grant funds
will be used to facilitate community involvement
activities; compile existing community plans and
coordinate planning and revitalization efforts;
perform research and analysis of existing
conditions in the project area; and review existing
infrastructure to determine how it can be
integrated into redevelopment plans. The project
will increase employment opportunities, create
healthy commercial corridors, improve
community access, help recognize and address
environmental justice concerns, and increase the
capacity of residents to participate in and benefit
from brownfields redevelopment. Key partners
who will work with Near East Area Renewal on
this project include John Boner Community
Centers, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
(LISC), Englewood Community Development
Corporation, Indy Chamber, Indianapolis
Metropolitan Police Department, Near East Side
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-17-0011
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Community Organization, and Riley Area
Development Corporation.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant contacts, additional
grant information, brownfields news and events, and publications and
links, visit the EPA Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Team
(312) 886-9493
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/brownfie
lds-and-land-revitalization-illinois-ind
iana-michigan-minnesota-ohio-and)
Grant Recipient: Near East Area Renewal, IN
(317) 808-2369
The information presented in this fact sheet comes from the grant
proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of this information. The
cooperative agreement for the grant has not yet been negotiated.
Therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
Solid Waste
EPA 560-F-17-0011
January 2017

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