Forging a New Path to the Waterfront
Reconnecting the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, to Cross Bayou through the cleanup and
redevelopment of a scrapyard
Project Summary
Concept plan for connecting Shreveport to its waterfront
EPA's Land Revitalization Technical Assistance
In 2017, U.S. EPA's Land Revitalization Program provided
contractor technical assistance to produce a Strategic
Action Plan for this site on the Cross Bayou. The plan
includes advice on next steps in the cleanup and
redevelopment of the scrapyard site. It also includes
information to help the city understand relocation and site
acquisition strategies, site investigation and remediation
approaches, costs and funding opportunities, site design
strategies, and incentives for the redevelopment of the
scrapyard site into a new multi-use recreation area.
The city of Shreveport can use the technical assistance to
continue the momentum of the Brownfields Area-Wide
Plan and reintegrate the scrapyard property into the
existing vibrant downtown area while providing beneficial
connections between adjacent neighborhoods and the
waterfront.
In 2015, the city of Shreveport completed the Cross Bayou
Corridor Brownfields Area-Wide Plan. The Plan included a
reuse vision for Shreveport's waterfront that integrated
community recreation priorities with infrastructure needs.
However, land reuse opportunities were limited by a
scrapyard that sat on the banks of the Cross Bayou. The
city determined that this site, once remediated, the area
had the potential to connect downtown Shreveport and
adjacent neighborhoods to the waterfront.
The Community's Challenge
The city needed assistance to identify the specific actions
they needed to take which would help them accomplish
their goals for cleaning up and redeveloping the
waterfront.
Community: Shreveport, Louisiana
Technical Assistance: Strategic Action Plan
Former Use: Metal Scrapyard
Future Use: Recreational Space
For more information, contact Denise Williams, EPA
Region 6 Brownfields Program, at
williams.denise@eDa.gov.
s>EPA
United States	Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
Environmental Protection
Agency	560-F-19-005-K

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