Brownfields
Brownfields are abandoned or underutilized industrial or commercial sites with the potential for contamination. The Department of Commerce, with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provides financial and technical support to developers in the redevelopment of brownfields located in the City of Philadelphia. This support includes:

• 100-percent funding of Phase I Environmental Site Assessments on select brownfields. Ownership of these sites may be public or private.
• 75-percent funding, up to $200,000, of Phase II Environmental Site Assessments on select brownfields. Ownership may be public or private.
• 75-percent funding, up to $1 million for remedial activities on publicly owned brownfields.
• technical assistance for the procurement of a
  2-percent loan with a five-year payback from the state’s Department of Community and Economic Development for 75 percent of the cost of remediation of a brownfield.
• Brownfield Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund. A 2-percent loan with a 10-year payback schedule for remediation of eligible contaminants. Federal funds managed by the Department of Commerce and PIDC.
• technical assistance with site selection and research on economic development incentives provided by the City of Philadelphia.

Contact: 215-683-2028
Manager of Brownfield Redevelopment Commerce Department

Act 2
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through its Land Recycling and Environmental Remediation Standards Act (Act 2 of 1995), provides financial incentives to businesses to transform vacant brownfields into safe, productive assets.
Contact: 717-783-7816
Land Recycling Program landrecycling@state.pa.us

For more information and recent funding incentives click here and here or:
Contact:
Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST)
22 S. Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101
General Information: 717-783-6798

Schmidt Site in 1999 before demolition.

Developer Tower Investments
Piazza; N. 2nd St.
Located on a 5-acre portion on the south side of the former Schmidt’s Brewery, new complex will comprise four new buildings, conversion of two vacant former warehouses, 100,000 sq. ft. ground-floor commercial space and 414 apartments, all surrounding a public plaza modeled after Italian piazzas.

Schmidt’s; 1101-47 N. 2nd St.
124 apartments, 124 townhouses, 700-car parking garage and 120,000 square feet of commercial space.

Cumberland Street Site
Developer New Kensington CDC

Greensgrow: inventive reuse of a brownfield on Cumberland Street in New Kensington