Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower States, communities, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. The Pilots are intended to provide EPA, States, Tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods to promote a unified approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment. The Pilot targets a brownfield property in the City of Long Beach for assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment into a sports park to improve environmental conditions at the site and to stimulate the area economy.
Long Beach plans to develop one of the targeted brownfields sites into a sports park.
The Pilot's targeted site is a 56-acre property that is an extension of Long Beach into the City of Signal Hill. The area has been the site of oil and gas production, waste and debris disposal, trash separation facilities, and other light and medium industries. The sports park stands to be a focus for the widespread application of cleanup standards, elimination of blight, and expansion of development in the area. Contamination at the targeted site has halted previous redevelopment efforts, including an automall in 1988, a retail center in 1991, a warehouse in 1994, and a race track in 1996. The Pilot's long-term objective is to improve environmental conditions at the targeted site and stimulate the surrounding economies of both Long Beach and Signal Hill.