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East Central Intergovernmental Association (ECIA) has been the recipient of three Brownfields Coalition Assessment Grants totaling $2,150,000.  ECIA has utilized the funds to develop a brownfields inventory list, prioritize potentially contaminated sites for assessment, establish a steering committee of stakeholders, assess potential brownfield sites, and develop an outreach program. 

Sites receiving funds are located throughout the region ECIA serves of Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, and Jones Counties. ECIA assisted communities by providing technical assistance to investigate potential brownfield sites that were actively being considered for redevelopment. By removing the uncertainty of potential environmental contamination, EPA funding was a key catalyst for moving the redevelopment of these sites forward. 

Under the FY2016 and the FY20 U.S. EPA Brownfield Coalition Assessment Grants, ECIA has provided environmental assessment and planning assistance at 46 sites throughout East Central Iowa.  These two grants are fully funded and closed out. 

ECIA currently has funds available under the FY23 Brownfields Coalition Assessment Grant. Assessment and Planning activities are underway at five sites.


Our Town West Branch: Heritage Hill

Our Town West Branch is a new housing development that is the result of collaboration and partnerships between IA DNR, EPA, IEDA, City of West Branch and developer! See the news coverage video here for more information: https://www.kcrg.com/2024/06/06/our-town-west-branch-heritage-hill-promising-development-booming-city/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1ceb0ez3OKM0jG24dWHVSBlM-mCPa9UBSTIc9VPNbEgKKdJkES_hjAygM_aem_Ab3p_BYQ_HpeH9KuIiW5e09GtTdbpmU9Lx8DrGxmrakaVsSeo_R-mgTLs-_FcPnKmwONmiBaZWtxIPSmJaq5s-43.

Testimonials

The ECIA Brownfields Program can help a community jumpstart a redevelopment project. ECIA is excited to continue to assist communities throughout the region with assessment and planning funds. The City of Hopkinton received assessment funds under both the FY2016 Brownfields Assessment Grant and under the FY2020 Brownfields Assessment Grant.

"The Brownfield grant is a great way for communities to take the first leap in property clean-up within the community. Without this grant, we would not have moved forward with the Derelict Building grant at 129 1st St Se where we are in the beginning stages of ideas for a greenspace.  Our current project is allowing us the opportunity to look into our community's  future by taking inventory of a current building and site with the hopes of using that realty space for the future site of our health clinic."  - Sarah Helle, City Clerk, City of Hopkinton

129 1st St SE Hopkinton Before & After

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Breakdown of Use of Funds3 documents

  • FY 16
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  • FY 20
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Assessment Projects34 documents

Cedar3 documents

  • Croell Redi Mix, 325 E. Green St
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  • Former Ropa Grocery, 211-213 E Broadway St, Stanwood
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  • Former Rhino's Bar & Grill, 524 Cedar St, Tipton
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Clinton12 documents

  • Former Clinton US Post Office, 301 5th Ave S
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  • Former YMCA, 480 S 3rd St
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  • Gene Wilson Trucking, 187-189 3rd Avenue N
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  • 193 2nd St, Calamus
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  • 227 & 229 3rd Ave N
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  • 50 Main Ave
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  • 413 100th Ave, 1000 S 4th St
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  • 1002 S 4th St
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  • 1004 S 4th St
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  • 1006-1008 S 4th St
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  • 1010-1012 S 4th St. Clinton
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  • 317-327 S 2nd St, Clinton (Former Strand Theater)
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Delaware5 documents

  • RTA Bus Facility – 123 Maple St, Earlville
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  • Former LeClere Building, 129 1st St SW, Hopkinton
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  • Former Dundee School, 118 E St
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  • Former Meat Locker, 200 Main St Ryan
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  • Smitty's 188,304, 310 W Main
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Dubuque7 documents

  • The Landing – Downtown Dyersville (Formerly: 136, 138, 140 2nd St NE and 2nd Ave NE)
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  • TOMY Plant 1, 711 13th Ave SE
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  • The Baseball Building – Formerly Tegeler Dairy – 310 2nd St SE, Dyersville
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  • TOMY Vacant Lot 2 – Theisen's 836 13th Ave SE Dyersville
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  • Rose Garden – TOMY Vacant Lot 1 – 1205 6th St. SE
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  • Textile Brewing 146 2nd St. NE, Dyersville
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  • 100 W Main St, Luxemburg
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Jackson6 documents

  • Former Button Factory 305-309 S Riverview Bellevue
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  • Clinton Engines, 602 E Maple St (Summary Incomplete)
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  • Maquoketa Sentinal Press (Site pulled before Completion)
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  • Mitchell Maskrey Mill, 102 E Pleasant St (Summary Incomplete)
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  • Young Museum, 406 N Riverview Dr
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  • 104 N Mitchell St, Preston
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