[CPEO-BIF] Denver (CO) receives EPA grant for 10th and Osage site

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Press Release
U.S. EPA
May 14, 2007

EPA grant to boost revitalization at 10th and Osage in Denver

Brownfields cleanup grant will make way for transit-oriented 
redevelopment in Denver's La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood


(Denver, Colo. -- May 14, 2007) A project to clean up contaminated 
property at 10th and Osage Street in Denver has been awarded a $200,000 
EPA Brownfields cleanup grant. This project is one of 294 in 38 states, 
two territories and five tribal nations that will share more than $70 
million in Brownfields grants. This funding will help revitalize former 
industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to 
productive community use.


"By transforming thousands of blighted sites into engines of economic 
rebirth, EPA's Brownfields program is proving to be one of the greatest 
environmental success stories of the past decade," said Administrator 
Stephen L. Johnson. "These grants build on the Bush Administration's 
commitment of handing down a healthier, more prosperous future to the 
next generation of Americans."

...

The City and County of Denver will receive a Brownfields cleanup grant 
for a 2.5-acre parcel at 10th and Osage Street. The site is currently 
contaminated with arsenic and polycrilic aromatic hydrocarbons from 
former railroad operations. Located in the La Alma/Lincoln Park 
neighborhood, the property is adjacent to 270 affordable housing units 
owned by the Denver Housing Authority and a light rail station. Cleanup 
of the site will allow Denver to move forward with plans to create a 
transit-oriented development center in this low-income neighborhood. 
This redevelopment is expected to increase economic activity in the 
neighborhood, bringing new jobs to the community and increasing the tax 
base.

...

For the entire press release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/d6e45625348afc24852572db0078b7e6?OpenDocument

For Lenny Siegel's recent report on this site, see
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/OsageMercado.doc

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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