July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Assessment grant is given (07/19/06)
By By RACHELLE HAUGHN-
The city of Portland has been awarded funds to do environmental assessments of a vacant factory and land planned for a park.
The Indiana Finance Authority has awarded the city a $50,000 Brownfields Stipulated Assessment Grant to investigate the environments of the site of the former hatchery building on South Wayne Street, and a former O-Cedar Vining building on South Middle Street.
The funds can be used to conduct soil sampling, ground water sampling and to look for harmful materials such as asbestos, said Sara Westrick, financial resources coordinator for the Indiana Brownfields program. The funds will be split evenly between the hatchery site and the former factory building.
The city’s grant application was approved in April, Westrick said.
City officials are expected to discuss the grant at a board of works meeting Friday at 10 a.m.
Bruce Hosier, mayor of Portland, said this morning city officials applied for the grant because it “gives us an opportunity to address, to identify, any environmental problems so we can develop and market those (properties). I can say we’re very pleased that the city of Portland was awarded that grant.”
Portland also was awarded a Brownfields Assessment grant in March of 2005, Westrick said. That grant amount was $4,343, and also was used for the hatchery site.
The hatchery building was razed in the fall of 2005 to make the entrance to the new Hudson Family Park more aesthetically pleasing.
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Westrick said a total of 17 grants were awarded in this round. The grant recipients were selected based on their redevelopment plans, potential for economic development, community support and what the community has done in the past with properties awarded Brownfields funds.
The city’s application stated that the hatchery property, which is owned by the city, would be used for the Hudson park, Westrick said.
The application also says that the former broom factory building, located on Middle Street, south of Water Street, would be marketed. The building is owned by Leventhal Limited Partnership of Springfield, Ohio.
A second O-Cedar building, at Blaine Pike and West Water Street, most recently the home of a paintball/skateboard facility, is not included in the grant awarded to the city.
Westrick said the city will not be given the funds up front. The city will have to have the work done, then submit bills for reimbursement.[[In-content Ad]]
The Indiana Finance Authority has awarded the city a $50,000 Brownfields Stipulated Assessment Grant to investigate the environments of the site of the former hatchery building on South Wayne Street, and a former O-Cedar Vining building on South Middle Street.
The funds can be used to conduct soil sampling, ground water sampling and to look for harmful materials such as asbestos, said Sara Westrick, financial resources coordinator for the Indiana Brownfields program. The funds will be split evenly between the hatchery site and the former factory building.
The city’s grant application was approved in April, Westrick said.
City officials are expected to discuss the grant at a board of works meeting Friday at 10 a.m.
Bruce Hosier, mayor of Portland, said this morning city officials applied for the grant because it “gives us an opportunity to address, to identify, any environmental problems so we can develop and market those (properties). I can say we’re very pleased that the city of Portland was awarded that grant.”
Portland also was awarded a Brownfields Assessment grant in March of 2005, Westrick said. That grant amount was $4,343, and also was used for the hatchery site.
The hatchery building was razed in the fall of 2005 to make the entrance to the new Hudson Family Park more aesthetically pleasing.
See Grant page 2
Continued from page 1
Westrick said a total of 17 grants were awarded in this round. The grant recipients were selected based on their redevelopment plans, potential for economic development, community support and what the community has done in the past with properties awarded Brownfields funds.
The city’s application stated that the hatchery property, which is owned by the city, would be used for the Hudson park, Westrick said.
The application also says that the former broom factory building, located on Middle Street, south of Water Street, would be marketed. The building is owned by Leventhal Limited Partnership of Springfield, Ohio.
A second O-Cedar building, at Blaine Pike and West Water Street, most recently the home of a paintball/skateboard facility, is not included in the grant awarded to the city.
Westrick said the city will not be given the funds up front. The city will have to have the work done, then submit bills for reimbursement.[[In-content Ad]]
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