Cleanup success stories
The MPCA coordinates and monitors the cleanup of many polluted properties, making them ready for productive use. This protects the environment, safeguards human health, and encourages economic growth in our communities.
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University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital
A blighted property was cleaned up and became the site of a vibrant, new children’s hospital in an older urban neighborhood.
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Arcola Mills Historic Foundation
The 54-acre property was first developed in the 1840s as a sawmill village and is now a retreat facility for business and community groups.
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Seminary Fen
The Seminary Fen Scientific and Natural Area contains one of the rarest types of wetlands in the U.S.
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Tracy Minnesota Lead site
Battery casings and contaminated soil are removed from residential property.
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Barker’s Alps Park
The Alps in your own backyard.
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Austin Gas Manufacturing Site
Redevelopment of a former coal gasification plant in Austin, Minn.
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Minnesota BioBusiness Center
The site of a former laundry and dry-cleaning operation in Rochester, Minn., is redeveloped to become a 124,000-square-foot office space for research and development businesses.
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Lumen Building
The battery lead is gone but Lumen shines brightly in Uptown.
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Minnesota Twins Ballpark
Baseball was meant to be played outdoors and it is at the New Target Field.
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B. F. Nelson
A historic building in Minneapolis is renovated after soil polluted with heavy metals, PAHs and VOCs are cleanup.
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Sanford Center on Lake Bemidji
Cleanup of lead, arsenic, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, and petroleum contaminants from past industry open the way for a Minnesota destination for concerts, conventions and athletic events.
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Bank Midwest site
A convenient new bank built along a busy highway increases tax revenues for the city and county.
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Merchants Bank expansion site in Winona
The cleanup of the dry cleaning solvent tetrachloroethylene and other VOCs allows for the revitalization of a historic downtown bank building and surrounding site.
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Renaissance Box in Downtown St. Paul
The site of a former shoe factory was cleaned up and the building was remodeled to provide 70 units of affordable housing. The energy-efficient building is expected to generate $62,000 in property taxes in 2012.
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Atlas Cement Plant No. 4
Cleaning up 11 acres of a former cement plant site cleared the way for Ikonics to build an expansion that employs 17 full-time workers. The facility contributes about $120,000 yearly to the local tax base.
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Martin Luther Care Center
The site of a planned addition to a nursing home on the Minnesota River bluffs, needed contaminated soil removed. The addition gave residents of the new building a great view of the river below, and the new building adds to the county tax base.
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Solhaus/Gopher Oil-Delaware/Huron Flats site in Minneapolis
Highly contaminated soil removed from this site is no longer a source for groundwater contamination. The 75-unit student apartment building built on the site adds to downtown economy.
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Guthrie Theater Auxiliary site
Land next to the Guthrie Theater near downtown Minneapolis was cleaned up and is being redeveloped as a parking ramp for the Guthrie and the new headquarters of the American Academy of Neurology.
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825 Glenwood Avenue site
Investigating this site made renovation possible while protecting human health. The renovated building houses two businesses and increased the taxable value of the land by $400,000.
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Uptown Bar and Grill site
Investigating this site and having a contingency plan made redevelopment possible. The new building and businesses increased the taxable value of the land and provide new jobs.
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Acme Tag & Label site
Redevelopment into apartments puts a former industrial property in Minneapolis' Uptown neighborhood back into productive use.
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Two MarketPointe Site in Bloomington
Fixing a hazardous dump site results in a gold level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building. This project also created about 50 new jobs.
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Ford Centre site in Minneapolis
A historic building in Minneapolis is renovated after soil polluted with heavy metals, PAHs and VOCs is cleaned up.