[CPEO-BIF] Indianapolis, Indiana Announces Opens Apartments for Homeless Vets

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City Announces Opening of Lincoln Apartments

Indianapolis Recorder
November 19, 2013

The Lincoln Apartments, Indianapolis' first permanent supportive  
housing for homeless veterans opened today on the site of a former  
iron foundry brownfield remediated by the City. The fully furnished  
apartments are located at 530 Holmes Avenue and will serve 75  
formerly homeless veterans. Today's ribbon cutting falls on the 150th  
anniversary of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

The project is within a mile from the Roudebush VA Medical Center and  
adjacent to a community health center. The City of Indianapolis  
donated the land for this project after remediating environmental  
problems by utilizing grants from the US Environmental Protection  
Agency (EPA), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)  
and the State’s brownfield program.

"I am pleased that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was able  
to help clean up this former foundry site -- to get it ready to build  
these terrific apartments for veterans," said EPA Region 5  
Administrator Susan Hedman. "EPA Brownfield grants, like the one used  
for the Lincoln Apartments, have been used by hundreds of cities and  
towns throughout the country to revitalize their communities."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/news/article_450e3352-517d-11e3- 
a1a0-0019bb2963f4.html

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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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