Brownfields

Success Story



Leveraged Resources:

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

-	infrastructure - $6,350,000

Allegheny County—infrastructure

-	$250,000

CSX—lntermodal Facility

-	$55,000,000

CSX - Community Investment

-	$1,500,000

Trinity Development—acquisition/
planning - $1,000,000 +

TOTAL: $64,100,000

For more information, contact:

Joseph Nowak
USEPA Region 3

nowak.loseph@epa.gov

215-814-3303

Juan Garrett, Executive Director North
Side Industial Dev. C

riversi decenterforinno vation .com

jg@ riversi decenterfc

&EPA

United States
Environmental Protection
Agency

Shell Distribution
Facility

McKees	Rocks/Stowe,

This thirty three-acre site was a former railyard and repair shop for the
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The Railroad went bankrupt in the late
I980's, and this site and adjacent 60 acres sat underutilized for decades.
Several attempts were made to complete environmental assessments on
the site, but none were thoroughly completed due to costs.

The Cleanup

The EPA Community Wide Assessment grants provided over $600,000 to
complete both Phase I and Phase II Environmental Assessments on these
sites, complete clean-up planning and a generate a Release of Liability
from the State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The soils
required remediation and the North Side Industrial Development
Company worked with the developer and the DEP to coordinate
remediation and site planning. The contaminated soil was placed in the
roadbed of the new access road, avoiding off-site transportation costs.

The Benefits

During this process of clean-up and infrastructure work, CSX
Corporation selected this site for the location of its Intermodal facility
for Western Pennsylvania, and constructed a $55 million multi-modal
transportation facility in 2017. CSX recently reorganized their multi-
modal operations nationally, and the site was recently leased to the
Shell Oil Company, to become a transportation facility to service the
Shell Cracker plant ap- proximately 20 miles away in neighboring
Beaver County. Land adjacent to this transportation facility will also be
developed as a multi-building distribution center. What was once
underutilized land now has become a productive asset due to the EPA
Community Wide Assessment Grant.

EPA Grant Recipient: North Side
Industrial Development Company

Year Awarded: 2008 & 2009 &
2011

Grant Types: Community Wide
Assessment

Former Uses: vacant rail yard
Current Uses: Distribution center
for the Shell Cracker plant and other
logistics uses

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