The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development issued $6 million in environmental assessment and clean-up grants to 13 communities across the state, including Minneapolis, Roseville, St. Paul and West St. Paul.
The goal is to ready sites for redevelopment and support $486 million in planned private investment, which would increase tax base by nearly $5.5 million. The grants are expected to help clean up 75 acres of polluted lands and create 1,500 housing units, in addition to new school spaces and commercial areas.
Contamination clean-up grants pay for up to 75% of the costs of assessment and clean-up at polluted sites slated for public or private redevelopment, and can be applied for by cities, port authorities, housing and redevelopment authorities, economic development authorities or counties.
Among the larger grants, the Roseville Economic Development Authority will receive $2 million in clean-up funding toward a 152,000 square-foot light industrial building at its sprawling Twin Lakes Technology Center. The 12.5-acre site, which is contaminated with petroleum and other chemicals, was previously used as a trucking terminal and maintenance shop.
DEED awarded the city of St. Paul $211,000 in clean-up funding at a .22-acre site at 1170 Arcade St. that had been used as a gasoline filling station. The site will be redeveloped by Face 2 Face into 24 units of affordable housing for homeless youth, with support services on the lower level.
The city of West St. Paul is receiving $137,000 in clean-up funding at the Thompson Oaks redevelopment site, an 11-acre site contaminated with volatile organic compounds and other chemicals. The site, previously used as a distribution center, a fitness center and for other commercial reasons, will be redeveloped into a five-story, 272-unit market-rate apartment building, as well as 19 townhomes. An existing 7,000-square-foot commercial building will be renovated.
The city of Minneapolis has received $192,000 in clean-up funding at the future site of a 16,800 square foot theater addition to the
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Lundstrum Performing Arts school off Washington Avenue in North Minneapolis. The 1.3-acre site, which is contaminated with petroleum and other chemicals, was previously used as a scrap metal recycling facility, an auto salvage business and a coal yard before a commercial building was added about 20 years ago.
Additional grants were awarded in Albert Lea, Austin, Duluth, Ely, Hermantown, Litchfield, Melrose, Rogers and St. Louis Park.
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