Throughout the 1980s, the property was host to a manufacturing plant for Magic Marker Industries, who filed for bankruptcy and abandoned the site in 1989. In the same year as EPA's brownfields grant, Phytotech, a research corporation developing innovative methods of site remediation, approached the City about conducting a demonstration cleanup project on the Gould site. In the case of the Gould site, Indian Mustard plants are being used. Community members joined City and State officials in the first planting of Indian Mustard seeds on the Gould site in April, 1996.
Initial tests prove that lead levels on the property have already been reduced.
Through the efforts of the Brownfields Pilot, the City, the community, and the Indian Mustard plant, the Gould site will one day return to productive use.