DOWNTOWN NORTH REDEVELOPMENT

Initial Project Plans Project History 2009 Streetscape Project Brownfield Assesment Grant North Gay Street Project North Central Street Project Facade Improvement Program BROWNFIELD ASSESSMENT GRANT In the fall of 2010 the City of Knoxville applied for a $400,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to do an area wide assessment of the Downtown North I-275 Redevelopment area for brownfield sites. In the fall of 2011 the city was awarded the grant with $200,000 dedicated to sites potentially contaminated by hazardous products and $200,000 for sites impacted by petroleum products. The contract period for this grant will run for three years until the fall of 2014. This grant will be used to conduct Phase 1 and Phase 2 environmental analysis on selected properties to further the goal of putting contaminated sites back to productive use. Click here to review the application document in PDF format which includes a great deal of information on the redevelopment area including an inventory of sites that be might be eligible for the use of grant funds. 10/15/10 - Brownfield Assessment Grant Application [PDF]