[CPEO-BIF] Ruby Park (Chemtura site), Indianapolis, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dreaming big for near eastside brownfield

by Andrea Muraskin
Indianapolis NUVO (IN)
October 30, 2013

A Near Eastside community taskforce is investigating ways to  
redevelop a 39-acre brownfield at 21st and Olney streets, the former  
site of a factory that manufactured battery containers, bedsprings,  
and car parts. The taskforce, headed by property-owner Laurie  
Klinger, formed early this fall with the intention of turning Ruby  
Park into a solar farm that could power homes in the neighborhood.  
Graduate students from Ball State's College of Architecture and  
Planning presented their ideas for the site and the adjacent  
residential neighborhood, based on input from taskforce members at a  
public charette on Oct. 15 at the Brookside Park Community Center. IU  
Bloomington Director of Sustainability Bill Brown and his policy  
administration students also contributed to the charette.

The brownfield, known as Ruby Park, is owned by Connecticut-based  
Chemtura Corp., which ceased operations at the site in 2008.  
According to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management the  
site contains soil contamination from lead, as well as chlorinated  
volatile organic compounds. Chemtura is involved in a remediation  
program with IDEM, but has not yet begun cleanup. Remediation  
concerns notwithstanding, students at the charette spent the day  
brainstorming and sketching out visions of what could be possible,  
planning as far as 40 years into the future.4

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/dreaming-big-for-near-eastside- 
brownfield/Content?oid=2707355

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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