[CPEO-BIF] Transforming a former city dump into a botanical garden, Louisville, Kentucky

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Louisville nonprofit receives first Cleaner Commonwealth Fund loan

Lane Report (KY)
January 5, 2018

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Botanica, Inc., a nonprofit in Louisville, will receive a $390,000 partially forgivable loan from the Kentucky Brownfield Redevelopment Program’s Cleaner Commonwealth Fund. Botanica Inc. will utilize the funds to help transform a former city dump into a state-of-the-art botanical garden. This is the first loan made from the Cleaner Commonwealth Fund since it was established in 2013.

The former Ohio Street dump was a construction and demolition landfill that has been capped and vacant for many years. Because of its location, the site was considered ideal for Botanica Inc. to construct the Waterfront Botanical Gardens.

The Cleaner Commonwealth Fund loan will assist with the managed reuse of the property. Botanica Inc. will use the money to manage potentially contaminated fill dirt on site and install clean fill/barriers, where needed, to protect those using the gardens from exposure to potential contamination.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.lanereport.com/85434/2018/01/botanica-receives-first-cleaner-commonwealth-fund-loan/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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