Brownfields

Success Story

EPA Grant Recipient: North Side
Industrial Development Company
("NSIDC")

Year Awarded: FY 2014
Grant Types: Community Wide
Assessment

Former Uses: commercial store
fronts and residential structures,
adjacent to Grenada Theatre.
New Uses: 40 apartments, ground
floor retail, community space.

Leveraged Resources:

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Urban Redevelopment Authority of
Pittsburgh

City of Pittsburgh

Hill CDC and CHN Housing Partners.

TOTAL: $14,500,000+

New Granada Square - Apartments

Hill District Neighborhood, Pittsburgh, PA.

This multi-parcel Hill District site encompasses almost an entire city block. It was
once a vibrant mixed-use district anchored by the adjacent Grenada Theatre.
The site along with the Theatre hosted many jazz greats through the years. Over
the last 40 years, the area and this site suffered from disinvestment and blight.
The Hill District Community Development Corporation ("Hill CDC") led a multi-
year effort to address this disinvestment by developing a plan for a new mixed
use residential/retail center, however the environmental issues posed by
previous use were a concern before the plan could move forward.

EPA Assessment Grant Deployment

From its prior uses, asbestos and lead paint were possible contaminants in the
soil following previous demolition of structures. Potentially old dry-cleaning
operations were also located on site. NSIDC provided over $60,000 from the EPA
Community Wide Assessment Grant and from the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania to complete Phase I and a Phase II Environmental Assessments. The
Phase II did not detect any contamination in excess of Statewide Health
Standards as established by the PA. Department of Environmental Protection.
The Hill CDC then proceeded with site acquisition from the Urban
Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh.

Community Benefits

In 2.023, the Hill CDC and CHN Housing Partners completed construction of the
$14.5 million New Grenada Square apartments featuring 24 one-bedroom and
16- two-bedroom units, along with first floor retail/community space. The
construction utilized minority & women owned contractors, who graduated from
the BizFIT training program managed by NSIDC. The project is having a
transformative impact on the neighborhood, such as local residents now sitting
on front porches again who previously stayed inside and spurring
redevelopment of the adjacent Grenada Theatre. The Theatre will host
community events and provide space to the University of Pittsburgh for further
community engagement and educational opportunities.

&EPA

United States
Environmental Protection
Agency

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