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2006
Tulare Redevelopment Agency, Tulare, CA
The Tulare Redevelopment Agency is planning to acquire and develop a former hazardous waste storage facility in the industrial core of the City of Tulare. The property is key to the redevelopment of the city’s job base (statewide unemployment is 4.6% while Tulare County’s unemployment rate looms around 20%). The site is a community eyesore and has been in tax default for over 20 years. CCLR will provide technical assistance for environmental due diligence funding assistance, as well as a $25,000 grant for final remedial action planning.
Wiyot Tribe, Eureka, CA
The Wiyot people have inhabited California’s northern shores for thousands of years and consider Shellmound Island, a small islet off the coast of Humboldt Bay, a sacred gathering place. In 1860, settlers massacred the Wiyots on Shellmond Island and the survivors were relocated to reservations. Since the time of the massacre and up until 1990 the site was used as a dry dock for boat repair. In 1996, the federal government returned the site to Tribe who are working to clean up the contamination from the boatworks operation and restore the site to its sacred ground. CCLR is providing financial assistance and a $25,000 for innovative feasibility studies for on-site treatment of contaminants.
2005
Neighborhood Parks Council, San Francisco, CA
The Neighborhood Parks Council has launched the Blue Greenway
Waterfront Trail Project, which will create a 13-mile greenway
along San Francisco's southeast shoreline. Incorporating the
Bay Trail into the project, the greenway will connect existing
parks and greenspaces, providing critical missing links and
public access for the historically under-served Bayview/Hunters
Point community. CCLR will provide technical assistance and
funding for site assessments.
City of Sacramento, CA
The City of Sacramento is planning to develop 35 acres along
the Sacramento River and adjacent to Old Town Sacramento. Historically
the area was used for industrial purposes, given its location
next to the river. It was perceived to be contaminated and not
attractive for future development. The City's current plans
are for a medium-density residential development with neighborhood-oriented
retail, and an extension of the Grand River Promenade providing
pedestrian and bicycle paths as alternative modes of transportation
into downtown. The CCLR grant will provide funding for the Phase
II study and regulatory facilitation.
2004
City of San Diego, CA
The City of San Diego passed an ordinance authorizing the implementation
of the California Land Environmental Restoration Reuse Act,
also known as SB32. The Act is a redevelopment tool that provides
cities with new authorities to pursue recalcitrant property
owners. The City will use their grant funds to implement this
highly effective tool in the Barrio Logan neighborhood.
2003
ACORN Community Enterprises, Montgomery Creek, CA
ACORN will receive technical assistance to assess remediation
and liability concerns related to the potential purchase of
a site they currently rent for the community services center
that serves this frontier community in Shasta County.
2002
Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, San Pedro, CA
Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI), will use their CCLR
grant to collaborate with members of the San Pedro neighborhood
and Councilwoman Janice Hahn's office to redevelop an abandoned
gas station site at the gateway to the San Pedro community.
LANI will lead the cleanup and redesign of this blighted area
into a neighborhood park and Bandini Canyon Trail.
Town of Truckee, CA
The Town of Truckee will use CCLR funds and technical assistance
as leverage for more funding to assist in the redevelopment
of an under-utilized rail yard site adjacent to Truckee's historic
downtown. The site offers a critical infill opportunity for
a community working to contain its growth while providing much-needed
affordable housing for the area.
Women Organizing Resources, Knowledge
and Services, Los Angeles, CA
W.O.R.K.S. is using CCLR funds and technical assistance to redevelop
a vacant former oil well site in the Temple-Beaudry neighborhood
of Los Angeles into 24 units of affordable housing. The W.O.R.K.S.
plan includes on-site services such as access to computers,
job training, and after-school tutoring for residents.
2001
East Bay Habitat for Humanity, Oakland, CA
Habitat for Humanity is constructing 23 low-income homes on
an old auto dismantling facility in East Oakland. CCLR is providing
funds for the site assessment and is assisting Habitat with
technical support for the property acquisition and cleanup phase
of the project. Habitat provides affordable housing to the needy,
applying a "sweat equity" model in which community volunteers
and future homeowners contribute to the home construction. The
remaining funds will come from contributions and loans by individuals,
foundations, and financial institutions. This project has been
enthusiastically endorsed by the neighbors, who for years have
been attempting to shut down the facility—a real community
eyesore.
Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
This local neighborhood nonprofit will construct the first ever
full-service grocery store in South Central Los Angeles on an
old metal recycling facility. This is CCLR's second grant award
to Concerned Citizens for this project. The first award in 1998
funded a feasibility and financing study for the proposed retail
complex. The current grant is for technical assistance with
regulatory facilitation and site remediation. CCLR is committed
to this very important project because we know that quality
supermarket goods and services will be made available to this
historically under-served community, and many needed jobs will
be created as a result of this project.
The Trust for Public Land, Pasadena, CA
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) plans to convert an abandoned gas
station in north Pasadena into a neighborhood pocket park. CCLR
is assisting with funding for the site assessment and providing
technical assistance for risk communication to the community.
This project is part of TPL's Urban Parks program, designed
to create and sustain community-supported parks. The park will
serve low to moderate income communities and will be the first
and only green space within a 5 mile radius.
1999
City of Ventura
CCLR is providing technical assistance that will enable the
City of Ventura to prioritize the remediation and redevelopment
of a variety of parcels in a previously industrial oil field
abutting a primarily low-income, Latino community. CCLR may
also partner with a local community-based organization and identify
appropriate tools for preventing the displacement of current,
low to moderate income residents of the area as property values
increase through successful redevelopment.
Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, San
Jose, CA
Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition is recycling a contaminated
bus yard just outside of downtown San Jose into much needed
affordable housing for households with very low incomes. CCLR
is providing the nonprofit with technical assistance for remediation
planning, and awarding a grant to partially fund the environmental
consultants and attorneys necessary for regulatory agency negotiations,
acquisition and remediation of the property, and selection of
environmental insurance instruments.
1998
City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, Venice Beach, CA
The City of Los Angeles is transforming the former Damson petroleum
extraction facility at Venice Beach, which had been abandoned
since 1990, into a much-needed youth recreation site. CCLR provided
technical assistance to redefine the scope and pin down the
cost of site cleanup, and awarded grant money to expedite the
obstacles to remediation. As a result, the City will be able
to remediate the site and construct the recreation facilities
for less than the previously estimated cost of remediation alone.
West Angeles Community Development Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
CCLR is assisting the West Angeles Community Development Corporation
in its efforts to recycle a dilapidated strip mall on Crenshaw
Boulevard into a business incubator for low-income entrepreneurs
in South Los Angeles. CCLR arranged a Phase I Site Assessment,
which uncovered dry cleaning solvent contaminants in the site's
groundwater. Based on the site assessment and analysis of the
project's feasibility, which had not factored in remediation
costs, CCLR recommended that the CDC not purchase the property.
CCLR's involvement brought resolution to a project that had
been at an impasse for over one year, and enabled the CDC to
protect itself from a project it would not have been able to
complete.
United Indian Nations Community Development Corporation, Oakland, CA
CCLR is providing a grant and technical assistance to the United
Indian Nations Community Development Corporation (UINCDC) to
assist in its efforts to transform the Oakland Army Base site
into an eco-industrial park. UINCDC has forged a creative relationship
with its development partners and is making an extraordinary
effort to foster community involvement and support for an environmentally
responsible reuse of a military base.
Concerned Citizens of South Central
Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
CA
CCLR is providing a grant and technical assistance to Concerned
Citizens of South Central Los Angeles in its effort to redevelop
former industrial property into a much-needed grocery store-anchored
shopping center. CCLR's assistance will be directed toward site
assessment and transaction coordination issues.
Los Angeles Community Redevelopment
Agency, Los Angeles, CA
The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) has established
a Brownfields Revitalization Fund to support "real world" brownfield
activities at several designated demonstration sites within
Los Angeles' inner city area. CCLR is partnering with CRA to
evaluate three projects and document models of brownfield redevelopment.
The three projects include two sites at the Goodyear Industrial
Tract in South Central Los Angeles, and the former "Prison Site" in East Los Angeles.
Local Government Commission, San Joaquin Valley, CA
The Local Government Commission (LGC) is working with four cities
in the San Joaquin Valley to develop mixed-use infill projects
as models for other communities. CCLR is providing a grant and
technical assistance, which will help the commission work in
a fifth city. CCLR will participate in documenting the processes
and outcomes for all sites in this pilot program, which is primarily
funded by the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution District.
The LGC will promote infill development as an alternative to
sprawl in the predominately agricultural Central Valley.
1997
City of Maywood, CA
CCLR provided independent legal and environmental consultants
to the City of Maywood to inform the City's decision to accept
stewardship of a remediated Superfund site, which is being converted
into a much-needed neighborhood park along the Los Angeles River.
City of Pacifica, CA
CCLR is providing this coastal suburb of San Francisco and its citizens with independent design, economic feasibility, and community involvement consultants to help them collectively determine a future use for a closing sewage treatment plant site.
North Fork Community Development Council, Madera County, CA
CCLR is facilitating a community involvement process and providing
an economic development consultant. This rural timber community,
located 15 miles south of Yosemite National Park, is in the
early stages of designing an economically feasible reuse plan
for its recently closed mill site. The result will be a master
plan for redevelopment with a mix of light industrial, community
service, and recreational uses on the 135-acre site. CCLR is
also advising the community regarding site assessment performed
by the EPA.
Environmental Health Coalition, San
Diego, CA
CCLR is assisting the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) in
its efforts to relocate a total of six hazardous metal plating
shops and chemical supply companies out of a primarily residential,
Latino neighborhood. The sites will be recycled into affordable
housing in San Diego's historic Barrio Logan community. The
initial focus will be on one particular metal plating shop,
which the County has cited with over 150 environmental violations.
Advocacy efforts on the part of EHC and the EPA have prompted
the City to make an offer to purchase the site, after the City
had stalled on relocation and redevelopment of the site for
several years.
Spanish Speaking Unity Council, Oakland, CA
CCLR is providing a grant to the Unity Council of Oakland to
support a Phase II Site Assessment at Union Point. The Unity
Council has been working to transform an industrial site owned
by the Port of Oakland into Union Point Waterfront Park, a much-needed
9-acre park bordering the primarily low-income San Antonio and
Fruitvale neighborhoods. Upon completion of the Phase II Site
Assessment, the Unity Council and Port hope to move forward
with fundraising and community design for the park.
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