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Redevelopment
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Celebrating	Success:

Naval Industrial Reserve Ordinance Plant
Fridley, Minnesota

"This site is a textbook example of the
public and private sector coming together for
the good of the public."

- Shawntera Hardy (Commissioner, Minnesota Department of
Employment and Economic Development)

June 2016 Ribbon Cutting

The event celebrated the ground breaking for Phase 3 of
the industrial park. State officials, agency staff and private-
sector partners recognized the public-private partnerships
and collaborative efforts that have made the project possible.
Presenters included:

•	Mark Dayton (Governor of Minnesota)

•	David Mortenson (President, M. A. Mortensen Company)

•	Brian LaRoche (General Manager, BAE)

•	Shawntera Hardy (Commissioner of Minnesota Department
of Employment and Economic Development)

•	Adam Duininck (Chariman, Met Council)

•	John Stine (Commissioner, Minnesota Pollution Control

Agency)

•	Scott Lund (Mayor, Fridley, Minnesota)

•	Cheryl Newton (EPA Deputy Regional Administrator)

For more information, please contact
Tom Bloom, EPA Region 5 Reuse Coordinator
bloom.thomas@epa.gov | (312) 886-1967
or

Hyde Development

info@hyde-development.com | (612) 904-1513

In Fridley, Minnesota, redevelopment is underway at the former Naval
Industrial Reserve Ordinance Plant (NIROP) site. The Northern Stacks
ribbon-cutting event held on June 22, 2016 celebrated the grand opening of
the Northern Stacks Industrial Park and showcased a successful public-private
sector partnership involving EPA, U.S. Navy, the Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency (MPCA), the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic
Development, and Elyde Development.

Site Background; The site encompasses an approximately 122-acre former
manufacturing complex and an adjacent disposal area known as the FMC
Corp. Superfund site. From the 1940s until 1969, the U.S. Navy and contractors
produced military ordinance, gun mounts and missile launching systems at
the site. Operations used large quantities of degreasing solvents, petroleum,
paints, acids and other chemicals. Site operators disposed of these wastes
in an on-site dump in the southern portion of the FMC site and in pits and
trenches in the northern portion of the NIROP site. Sampling in the early
1980s identified contamination in site ground water, surface water and soils.

Following discovery of contamination, EPA placed the FMC Corp. portion
of the site on the Superfund programs National Priorities List (NPL) in
1983. Simultaneously, the U.S. Navy, EPA and MPCA began investigations
and cleanup for the NIROP site under a Federal Facilities Agreement. The
cleanup plan for both sites involved the excavation of contaminated soil with
off- site disposal and on-site disposal in a containment system, groundwater
extraction and treatment, and institutional controls to limit site activities to
industrial uses and restrict soil disturbance and groundwater use. The U.S.
Navy and FMC Corp. (now BAE Systems Land and Armaments L.P, or BAE)
completed most cleanup activities between 1987 and 2001.

Redevelopment Process: Cleanup efforts led to several land transfers and
adaptive reuse of parts of the site. However, residual contaminated soils beneath
several vacant structures posed a significant obstacle to redevelopment. In
2012, Hyde Development contacted EPA Region 5 s Superfund Redevelopment
Initiative (SRI) to discuss redevelopment considerations for the NIROP site.
EPA, MPCA and the US. Navy then coordinated closely, reaching agreements
that resulted in the sites enrollment in MPCAs Voluntary Investigation and
Cleanup (VIC) program. In addition, activities required for cleanup of site
soils were completed by the U.S. Navy which allowed for the deletion of the
soils operable unit. Voluntary cleanup actions - including demolition of
most former US. Navy buildings and excavation of any remaining residual
contaminated soils - followed.

With both parts of the site now able to support commercial and industrial
uses, Llyde Development purchased the entire 122-acre site in July 2013. The
company then moved forward with the four-phase redevelopment effort
that transformed the site into the Northern Stacks Industrial Park. In 2014
and 2015, Hyde Development completed the projects first two phases,
which included construction of a 200,000-square-foot warehouse and
a 500,000-square-foot technology center. In June 2016, a ribbon cutting
ceremony to memorialize the beginning of Phase three construction which
includes a 187,000 sq. ft. Bulk distribution warehouse and two 129,000 sq.
ft. office/warehouse buildings.	September 2016

June 22 ribbon cutting ceremony for Phase 3
redevelopment at Northern Stacks Industrial Park

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