Land Revitalization Success Stories | tPA #560-F22-288 December 2022 Planning for Sustainable Brownfield Redevelopment HARLOWTON, MONTANA - HARLOWTON ROUNDHOUSE SITE REUSE DESIGN PROJECT DESCRIPTION • Community: Hariowton, Montana • EPA Regional Lead: Greg Davis, davis.gregory@epa.gov • Site and Use: Redevelop the former railroad roundhouse and adjacent foreman's office building • Technical Assistance: Conceptual Site Reuse Design for the Milwaukee Road railyard site PROJECT BACKGROUND The City of Hariowton inherited the 180-acre railyard property after the Chicago-Milwaukee-St. Paul-Pacific Railroad went bankrupt in 1980. The city is in the process of cleaning up significant petroleum contamination and planning the reuse of the entire Milwaukee Road railyard. The property includes a roundhouse (a 15,000 square foot semicircular shaped building used by the railways for servicing and storing locomotives) and the foreman's office building, The city is interested in reusing these buildings if possible, The city has also developed a community-led wetland/nature park restoration plan for the heavily contaminated 5-acre refueling area directly adjacent to the roundhouse, PROJECT CHALLENGES The interior of the roundhouse and other historic structures contain significant amounts of lead-based paint and asbestos contamination that will need to be cleaned up prior to reuse of the buildings. However, the city has not developed a reuse design for the buildings. Depending on the final reuse of the property, the city is concerned about the operation and maintenance costs associated with building redevelopment. EPA'S TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE EPA's Land Revitalization team helped Hariowton by: • Working with local stakeholders, Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), and Snowy Mountain Development Corporation (SMDC) to hold a three-day public meeting and design workshop focused on the brownfields program process and developing conceptual design options for the roundhouse and forman's office buildings. • Delivering a final three-phased conceptual site design and building revitalization study to engage potential developers and city leaders. • Developing opinions of probable cost estimates for the redevelopment of the conceptual site reuse design to assist with future public and private financing options for the roundhouse cleanup and redevelopment, NEXT STEPS FOR CONSIDERATION • Establish a key stakeholder redevelopment group to work with Montana DEQ and SMDC to further refine the plan for reusing the Roundhouse and Foreman's Office buildings, • Submit a brownfields grant application to help address the asbestos and lead-based paint within the roundhouse property, • Conduct a financial analysis for the three-phased conceptual site reuse options to identify potential funding options to assist with cleanup and redevelopment of the property, • Apply for state historic preservation grants and other local, state, and federal resources for site remediation and construction, Figure 1 and 2: Conceptual Design of Roundhouse Building (above) and Property (below) ------- |