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Success Stories, Lessons Learned, And Best Practices
Lessons Learned
Best Practices
Guidance
Success Stories By State
Success Stories Of Petroleum Brownfields For Tribes
Petroleum brownfield projects not only improve public health and the environment, they often create jobs and revitalize neighborhoods. Local, state, and federal governments have over 25 years of experience in assessing and cleaning up petroleum-contaminated sites. They also have almost a decade of experience reusing cleaned up petroleum sites. The success stories, lessons learned, and best practices listed below result from these experiences.
Recycling America's Gas Stations 
The Northeast Midwest Institute and National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals (NALGEP)
report on initial USTfields pilots. 2002.
For lessons learned in the EPA Brownfields program, see:
Brownfield Grants: Lessons Learned From NALGEP's Brownfield Grants Task Force (PDF) (20 pp, 1.2MB, About PDF)
The National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals (NALGEP). 2008.
The links below identify common challenges associated with petroleum brownfields and provide examples of the best practices used to surmount known challenges.
A Primer for Petroleum Brownfields: What Can Your Community Do To Revitalize UST Sites? (PDF) (20 pp, 4.3MB, About PDF)
Northeast-Midwest Institute. 2003.
Toolbox for Cleanups and Redevelopment of Contaminated Sites in Small Cities and Rural Communities (PDF) (29 pp, 3.9MB, About PDF)
Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO). 2007.
These model guidance documents provide examples of tools used by petroleum brownfield revitalization practitioners that are potentially applicable to new petroleum brownfield projects.
Anatomy of Brownfields Redevelopment (PDF) (7 pp, 2.6MB, About PDF)
EPA guidance document intended for real estate transactions but useful to other practitioners as well.
Toolbox for Cleanups and Revelopment of Contaminated Sites in Small Cities and Rural Communities (PDF) (29 pp, 3.9MB, About PDF)
Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO). 2007.
Ready For Reuse: A New Measure Of Remedial Progress (Presentation) (PDF) (25 pp, 522K, About PDF)
EPA Region 6. 2004.
Across the U.S., petroleum brownfield sites have been cleaned up and reused successfully. Case studies describe successful petroleum brownfield projects and contain a great deal of information that can be applied to future projects.
Alabama
Selma, AL
Using Brownfield Redevelopment to Sustain Small-Town Heritage (PDF) (2 pp, 52K, About PDF)
Alaska
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation - Reuse & Redevelopment Initiative
(scroll down page)
Arkansas
Little Rock, AR
Environmentally-Conscious Redevelopment Creates a New Home Base for World Hunger Organization (PDF) (2 pp, 95K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-06-235. August 2006.
California
San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board: Brownfield Sites
Signal Hill, CA
Transforming Brownfields Using EPA Petroleum Funding (PDF) (4 pp, 80K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-06-248. October 2006.
Features Houston, TX, Prineville, OR and Signal Hill, CA.
Connecticut
Bridgeport, CT
Blighted Neighborhood Makeover: Revamping Industry in the City of Bridgeport (PDF) (1 pg, 102K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-06-230. August 2006.
East Hartford, CT
Brownfields Success in New England: Goodwin College Riverfront Campus (PDF) (1 pg, 510K, About PDF)
Glastonbury, CT
Glastonbury Riverfront Community Center
Hartford, CT
A Decade-Long Dream Becomes Reality in Hartford (PDF) (1 pg, 90K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-06-241. August 2006.
Ledyard, CT
Former Erickson Property becomes a City Park
Manchester, CT
ActionAir Systems: Success in EPA Conducted Targeted Brownfields Assessments
New Britain, CT
Urban Oaks Organic Farm
New Haven, CT
"r" Kids Family Center
New London, CT
Success in EPA-Conducted Targeted Brownfields Assessments
New Milford, CT
Success in Brownfields Assessment and Revolving Loan Fund Programs
Norwich, CT
Brownfields Success in New England: Occum Park (PDF) (1 pg, 364K, About PDF)
Shelton, CT
Brownfields Success in New England: Farmer's Market Site (PDF) (1 pg, 720K, About PDF)
Stamford, CT
Harley Davidson / Buell Dealership of Stamford
Delaware
Delaware Brownfields Success Stories
Wilmington, DE
Delaware Promotes Redevelopment at LUST Sites
Abandoned Gas Station Now Aesthetic Greenspace in Historic Wilmington
District of Columbia
Camp Simms Military Reservation
From Rifles to Residential
Department of Transportation
Paving the Way for a New Department of Transportation Headquarters
The Jefferson
D.C.'s Voluntary Cleanup Program Transforms Defunct Land into Fine Living/Retail Space
Florida
A Tour of Florida's Brownfields Redevelopment Program (PDF) (52 pp, 3.4MB, About PDF)
Clearwater, FL
Clearwater's Revitalization Spectrum: From High-tech Industry to Community Health Clinic (PDF) (3 pp, 111K, About PDF)
EPA 500-F-01-219. June 2001.
Improving Public Health in Brownfields Communities (PDF) (4pp, 188K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-07-253. January 2008.
Hawaii
Land Revitalization in Hawaii
Idaho
Idaho Department of Environmental Quality: Brownfields Success Stories
(see City of Smelterville and Bruce and Rod's Tire Factory)
Illinois
Four Different Cities, Four Different Grants (PDF) (4 pp, 375K, About PDF)
Indiana
Indiana Finance Authority: Brownfields Redevelopment Success Stories
Iowa
Iowa Department of Natural Resources: USTfield Projects
Kansas
Brownfields Redevelopment Success in Kansas (PDF) (75 pp, 3.0MB, About PDF)
Louisiana
Lake Charles, LA
Charpentier Historic District (PDF) (1 pg, 125K, About PDF)
Shreveport, LA
Shreveport Convention Center (PDF) (2 pp, 165K, About PDF)
A Brownfields Intervention Results in the New Shreveport Convention Center (PDF) (1 pg, 92K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-07-213. June 2007.
Transforming Brownfields Industrial Eyesores into Recreational Open Space Attractions (PDF) (3 pp, 695K, About PDF)
EPA 500-F-01-345. September 2001.
Features Shreveport, LA, Denver, CO, Providence, RI, Tallahassee, FL and Dallas, TX Pilots.
Maine
Lewiston, ME
Bates Mill
Former Civil War Textile Mill is Given New Economic Life with the Help of $775,000 in Funding from the EPA
Former Mill Complex Redeveloped for Light Industrial Use, with a 300,000 square-foot Convention Center Planned (PDF) (1 pg, 141K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-08-294. September 2008.
Lewiston Initiates Community Investment with Bates Mill Redevelopment (PDF) (2 pp, 446K, About PDF)
EPA 500-F-00-254. March 2004.
Old Town, ME
Lily-Tulip Factory
Old Town's New Look: Along the Waterfront, an Abandoned Manufacturing Site Joins Two City Parks (PDF) (3 pp, 340K About PDF)
EPA 500-F-98-270. November 1998.
Perry, ME
Pleasant Point Reservation
Brownfields Success in New England: Sipayik Corner Store (PDF) (1 pg, 610K, About PDF)
Maryland
Baltimore, MD
Walgreens Turns Community Liabilities into Community Assets in Maryland
Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfields - Fostering Economic Development and Protecting the Environment (PDF) (2 pp, 298K, About PDF)
EPA 500-F-03-031. May 2003.
Features Baltimore, MD, Cape Charles, VA, and Knoxville, TN pilots
Using "Green" Buildings on Brownfields: Using Innovative Architecture to Improve Performance (PDF) (4 pp, 691K, About PDF)
EPA 500-F-03-249. October 2003.
Features Baltimore, MD, Cape Charles, VA, and Washington, DC pilots
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Deparment of Environmental Protection: Building on History
Boston, MA
Redevelopment of Parcel 8 - 505 Tremont St.
Chicopee, MA
The WWLP-22 Television Station
Fitchburg, MA
Rubber Factory Contaminated Site Becomes an Urban Oasis
New Bedford, MA
Success in EPA-Conducted Targeted Brownfields Assessments
Sid Wainer & Son Co. Greenhouse
Northampton, MA
Old Northampton Fire Station
Westfield, MA
Former H.B. Smith Property
Worcester, MA
Gardner-Kilby-Hammond (GKH) Revitalization Project
Michigan
Redeveloped State Funded Cleanup Sites
Minnesota
Brownfields Success Stories
St. Louis Park, MN
Region 5 Brownfields: Success Stories
Mississippi
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality: Brownfields
Missouri
St. Louis, MO
MLK Plaza (PDF) (2 pp, 315K, About PDF)
Montana
Brownfields Newsletters and Presentations
The Outreach: Focus on Petroleum Brownfields (PDF) (8 pp, 537K, About PDF)
Vol 4, Issue 1. May 2008.
Nevada
Nevada Brownfields Program
Reno, NV
Reno's New Events Center is a Major Venue for Downtown Entertainment (PDF) (1 pg, 87K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-06-226. August 2006.
New Hampshire
Belmont, NH
Brownfields New Hampshire Success Stories: Former Belmont Gulf Gas Station, Belmont (PDF) (2 pp, 156K, About PDF)
Carroll, NH
Brownfields New Hampshire Success Stories: Former Twin Mountain Sunoco Gas Station, Carroll (PDF) (2 pp, 143K, About PDF)
Greenfield, NH
East Coast Steel
Henniker, NH
Former Contoocook Valley Paper Company
Nashua, NH
Former Whitney Screw Property
New Ipswich, NH
Seppala and Aho: Success in Assessment Demonstration Pilot Program
New Jersey
Trenton, NJ
Old Pottery Factory Site Gives Way to New Development in Trenton (PDF) (2 pp, 133K, About PDF)
EPA 500-F-01-227. June 2001.
New Mexico
Brownfields Success Stories
Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe Railyard (PDF) (1 pg, 112K, About PDF)
New York
Environmental Cleanup Success Stories
Buffalo, NY
URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
New Life Breathed into Former Industrial Property (PDF) (1 pg, 102K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-08-317. November 2008.
North Carolina
Fayetteville, NC
A Salute to the Armed Forces in Fayetteville (PDF) (2 pp, 347K, About PDF)
EPA 500-F-03-017. May 2003.
Brownfields Metamorphosis - From Abandoned Properties to Cultural Celebrations (PDF) (3 pp, 384K, About PDF)
EPA 500-F-02-034. April 2002.
Features Tacoma, WA, Fayetteville, NC, Bethlehem Steel, PA, and Louisville, KY Pilots.
Ohio
Hamilton, OH
Region 5 Brownfields: Success Stories
Oregon
Prineville, OR
Transforming Brownfields Using EPA Petroleum Funding (PDF) (4 pp, 80K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-06-248. October 2006.
Features Houston, TX, Prineville, OR and Signal Hill, CA.
Pennsylvania
Allentown, PA
Vacant Hulk Ready for Ruin to Fulfill Lehigh Riverfront Vision
Chester, PA
Waterfront Redevelopment Project in Chester, Pa. Scores Top Honor
Rhode Island
Reinvesting in Rhode Island's Brownfields: Brownfields Case Study
Providence, RI
Save the Bay Center
South Carolina
Greenville, SC
In Greenville, SC, Coordinating Resources from two EPA Programs Maximizes Their Effectiveness and Results (PDF)
(3 pp, 171K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-239. March 2008.
Texas
Dallas, TX
Victory Park (PDF) (2 pp, 179K, About PDF)
Greenville, TX
Greenville Grocery Store (PDF) (1 pg, 168K, About PDF)
Houston, TX
Federal Reserve Bank Building (PDF) (1 pg, 99K, About PDF)
Transforming Brownfields Using EPA Petroleum Funding (PDF) (4 pp, 80K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-06-248. October 2006.
Features Houston, TX, Prineville, OR and Signal Hill, CA.
Utah
Utah Department of Environmental Quality: Petroleum Brownfields Programs (scroll down)
Salt Lake City, UT
Engaging Communities in Healthy Living Through Revitalization: Jefferson School Apartments Phase II (PDF) (1 pg, 90K, About PDF)
Vermont
Bellow Falls, VT
Boccelli's Cafe & Auction House (PDF) (1 pg, 798K, About PDF)
Burlington, VT
Development of the Vermont Bus Barns Property
Affordable Waterfront Apartments
Hartford, VT
Rail Road Row Redevelopment
Swanton, VT
Habitat for Humanity Sees a Former Gas Station as a Perfect Fit for Residential Reuse (PDF)
(1 pg, 103K, About PDF)
EPA-560-F-08-304. October 2008.
Virginia
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Brownfields/Land Renewal: Success Stories
Abingdon, VA
Closure of Oil Storage Plant in Abingdon, Virginia Leads to Opening of Walgreens
Arlington, VA
Prime D.C. Suburban Property Back on the Map
Bluefield, VA
Flood Control in Bluefield, Va. Leads to Cleanup and Greenway Development
Bristol, VA
Building a Library on Bristol's Blue Grass Roots
Roanoke, VA
Roanoke's Industrial Core Gets Economic Transplant As Biotechnology Hub
Washington
State of Washington Department of Ecology: Brownfields Revitalization
West Virginia
Charleston, WV
Charleston, WV Narrows the Field of Petro Sites for Reuse
Baseball Triumphs over Environmental Changes at New Charleston Baseball Stadium
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: Remediation & Redevelopment Program Success Stories
Success Stories Of Petroleum Brownfields For Tribes
Maine
Perry, ME
Pleasant Point Reservation
Brownfields Success in New England: Sipayik Corner Store (PDF) (1 pg, 610K, About PDF)
To learn more about petroleum brownfields, see:
Basic Information On Petroleum Brownfields
Financial Resources
Public/Private Partnerships
Sustainability And Petroleum Brownfields