2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:00:37 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Indianapolis, Indiana Announces Opens Apartments for Homeless Vets
 
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
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