Baltimore Development Corp. to study brownfields with $400K EPA grant - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The federal grant money will helpthe city’s developmenty arm study a portiobn of Baltimore’s 1,000 brownfield sites, occupyin more than 2,400 acres of potentially contaminated The brownfield properties are former industrial such as landfills or manufacturing plants, wher the contamination must be assesse and cleaned up before the land can be converted into new uses. BDC officials were not immediatelhy available comment on which site s wouldbe studied. If all the city’s brownfieldx sites were redeveloped, the BDC estimatesw those efforts could help create 27,000 new jobs and generatr $25 million in new property taxes annually.
Montgomery Park, Port Covington and Clipper Mill were all designatexd brownfields sites that were redeveloped with in part with fundx from thefederal program, whic h provides grants and loan funds to help developers clean up contaminatedc properties and construct new buildings on the “Along with generating jobs, this grant will help the City of Baltimorer reclaim property that has been unusedf for years and turn those sites into assetsd for the community, the environment, and the economy,” Williamm C. Early, acting regional administratorfor EPA’s mid-Atlanticd region, said in a statement.