CASE STUDIES: BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENTCASE STUDIES: BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT Tukwila WA | October 7, 2015 Lucy Auster Senior Planner, Solid Waste Division (SWD) King County Department

CASE STUDIES:BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT

Tukwila WA | October 7, 2015

Lucy AusterSenior Planner, Solid Waste Division (SWD)King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks (DNRP)

Emery BayleySenior Business Associate Brownfields Program Manager Environmental Coalition of South Seattle (ECOSS)

Paul MarDirector of Real Estate Development Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority (SCIDpda)

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW

• King County Brownfields Program – Lucy Auster, King County

• Assessment Process and Case Study – Emery Bayley, ECOSS

• Developer Perspective – Paul Mar, SCIDpda

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KING COUNTY DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES & PARKSSOLID WASTE DIVISION

LUCY AUSTER

THE KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM

KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM HISTORY

• 1998: selected as an original EPA Brownfields Showcase Community

• 1998 - 2015: received 5 EPA Assessment grants and 1 EPA Cleanup grant totaling $2.2 million

• 1998 - 2015: conducted 11 Phase I and 22 Phase II Environmental Site Assessments

• 3 current assessments, including Republic Hotel for SCIDpda

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAMPURPOSE/ACTIVITIES

• Purpose: promote cleanup and redevelopment of underutilized brownfield sites

• Activities: provide free technical assistance to qualified clients in environmental site assessment and cleanup

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM PURPOSECLIENTS/ASSISTANCE

• Clients• Nonprofit Organizations• Municipalities• Qualified Private Businesses/Individuals

• Assistance:• Technical Assistance• Loans• Grants

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM TECHNICALASSISTANCE

• 2 Contractors:1. Environmental Coalition of South Seattle(ECOSS)

- Free technical assistance in brownfields assessment/cleanup planning

2. Hart Crowser, Inc. - Phase I and Phase II Assessments and planning level cleanup cost estimates

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM ECOSS

• ECOSS selected by King County in1999• ECOSS assistance:

• research past and present uses of sites• review existing environmental studies • interpret consultant reports• help navigate the regulatory and technical

requirements of the assessment/cleanup process• urban Endangered Species Act (ESA) analyses• Brownfields micro-inventories• refer to qualified consultants

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM HARTCROWSER, INC.

• Hart Crowser assistance:• ASTM Phase I Environmental Site Assessments

• Site background research/past uses (AAI)• ASTM Phase II Environmental Site Assessments

• On site sampling and lab analysis• Planning Level Cleanup Cost Estimates• Subcontract for NHPA/Cultural Resources Assessments

and rural ESA analyses

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM LOANS ANDGRANTS

• Loans: • Washington Department of Commerce Brownfields

Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Program application assistance

• Grants:• EPA Brownfields Program assessment and cleanup

application assistance

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TYPICAL BROWNFIELDS

• Old industrial sites (foundries, metal finishers, chemical plants, fuel storage, etc.)

• Abandoned gas stations• Former dry cleaners• Auto wrecking yards• Former landfills

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM SUCCESSSTORIES

• Rainier Court Phase 1• Kwik Cleaners/Delite Bakery• Harborview Medical Center• Chubby and Tubby

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RAINIER COURT PHASE 1 - BEFORE

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RAINIER COURT PHASE 1 - DURING

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RAINIER COURT: PHASE 1 – AFTER

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KWIK CLEANERS/DELITE BAKERY - BEFORE

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KWIK CLEANERS/DELITE BAKERY - DURING

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KWIK CLEANERS/DELITE BAKERY - AFTER

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HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER - BEFORE

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HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER -GROUNDBREAKING

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HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER – DURING

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HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER – AFTER

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CHUBBY & TUBBY - BEFORE

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CHUBBY & TUBBY - DURING

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CHUBBY & TUBBY – AFTER

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM OUTCOMES

• 787 temporary cleanup or construction and 103 permanent jobs created

• 459 affordable senior or family housing units created• $178,515,947 leveraged in cleanup and redevelopment expenditures• 35,150 square feet of retail/commercial space created• 102,459 tons of contaminated soil removed. Contaminates included

petroleum, PCE, PAH, PCB, and metals.• Two underground storage tanks (USTs), 400 gallons of hazardous

waste and 190 tons of debris removed

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM STRUCTURE

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EPA

King County Solid Waste Division

Brownfields Technical Assisstance Geotechnical Consultant

Grant contractors selected by competitive bidding

3 Year Community-wide Assessment Grants$200,000 each for Haz. Substances & Petroleum

ECOSS (1999 -) CDM Smith (2004 – 2013)Hart Crowser (2014 - )

KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM ROLES –EPA REGION 10

• Provides cooperative agreement oversight • Determines eligibility of each assessment project• Reviews and approves Phase II ESA Quality

Assurance Project Plans (QAPP) • Reviews Quarterly and Final Reports from SWD • Monitors budget

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM ROLES -SWD

• Writes Grant Applications and negotiates Cooperative Agreements with EPA

• Selects Contractors/administers contract and budget• Assigns tasks to Contractors• Conducts outreach to locate clients and sites• Prepares Quarterly and Final Reports for EPA• Inputs data into ACRES database• Facilitates applications for Brownfields RLF Program• Maintains Brownfields website

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM ROLES -ECOSS

• Conducts research and maintains inventories of contaminated sites in King County

• Prepares Mini-Inventories of potential REC sites for local communities• Conducts outreach to locate clients and sites• Performs site research and provides limited technical assistance to

clients• Prepares Endangered Species Analysis for urban sites• Prepares Site Eligibility Worksheets and Project Fact Sheets• Reviews geotechnical reports and documents • Submits Quarterly Reports to SWD

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KING COUNTY BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM ROLES –HART CROWSER, INC.

• Prepares site assessment proposals• Attends assessment scoping meetings with clients• Prepares QAPPs for review by EPA• Prepares Cultural Resource Assessments for Phase II Assessment

Sites/ESAs for rural sites• Conducts Phase I, Phase II Site Assessments and Terrestrial Ecological

Evaluations (TEE) as needed• Prepares Site Assessment Reports• Prepares Engineers Estimates or Analysis for Brownfields Cleanup

Alternatives (ABCAs) for cleanup as needed

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ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE (ECOSS)

EMERY BAYLEY

THE BROWNFIELDS ASSESSMENT PROCESS

IDENTIFYING QUALIFIED SITES

• Public Outreach, Community Meetings, Newsletters, etc.

• Prospecting Ecology MTCA sites• Word of mouth, networking and/or institutional

knowledge

Over 80% of sites assessed since 2004 were from clients who heard about the program and contacted King County or ECOSS to ask for assistance

APPLICATION FOR ASSESSMENTASSISTANCE

• Complete Region 10 Site Eligibility Worksheet (SEW)• Property location, current and past ownership, known or suspected

contaminants, are contaminants hazardous substances or petroleum, purpose of assessment and use of property after cleanup, site history, is property listed on NPL or within Superfund boundary, under administrative order pursuant to CERCLA, is it government property, etc.

In other words, are there any reasons to disqualify a site?

• Submit SEW to EPA for approval, and when (if) granted, King County will request a proposal from Hart Crowser

ELEMENTS OF SITE ASSESSMENTASSISTANCE

Hart Crowser• Meets with client and conducts job walk • For Phase II assessments, prepares QAPP for EPA

review and approval• Mobilizes to site and conducts assessment• Submits assessment report to King County and client• If indicated, follow-up assessments, i.e. Phase II or

TEE may be done• Prepares Engineer’s Estimate for clean up or ABCA if

needed

The time frame to complete an assessment varies, and it may take

months from submittal of the SEW to EPA to completion of the assessment

report.

CASE STUDY12TH AND JEFFERSON PROJECT

• September 2008 -----

• October 2008 --------• December 2008 ------• January 2009 ---------• April 2009 ------------• August 2009 ---------

Capitol Hill Housing contacted ECOSSabout conducting Phase I and II assessments on a former gas station site.Site Eligibility Form submitted to EPAEPA approves use of grant fundsPhase I completed. QAPP for Phase II submitted to EPA

EPA approves QAPP for Phase II

12TH AND JEFFERSON CASE STUDY(CONT.)

Contractor conducts Phase II drilling and sampling

Contractor releases report indicating significant

plume of gasoline and benzene on site. Planning

level cleanup cost estimate at >$1,000,000

Property owner locates PRP to fund clean-up

Site Remediated

Construction of mixed residential and commercial

Grand Opening of 12th & Jefferson Building

• Late August 2009 ----• October 2009 --------

• June 2010 ------------• Oct.-Dec. 2010 -------• July 2011 -------------• October 2012---------

12TH AND JEFFERSON SITENOVEMBER 14, 2008

12TH AND JEFFERSON SITEAFTER REMEDIAL CLEANUP JANUARY 31, 2011

Remedial activities occurred between October 20 and December 3, 2010. Initial excavation removed 207 tons of clean soil that lay over the contaminated soil zone. Petroleum contaminated soil (PCS) was removed from to depths up to 18 feet below the original ground surface. The total amount of PCS removed was 5,303.68 tons.

12TH AND JEFFERSON SITENEW CONSTRUCTION AS OF JUNE 27, 2012

12TH AND JEFFERSON SITEGRAND OPENING | OCTOBER 19, 2012

SEATTLE CHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICTPRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY(SCIDPDA)

International District Village Square (IDVS)7th Avenue Block Redevelopement

PAUL MAR

BROWNFIELDS DEVELOPMENT 101 CASE STUDY

LOCATION OF VILLAGE SQUARE

VILLAGE SQUARE EVOLVEMENT

• 66,000 sq. ft. land on 2 city clocks• Prior use—METRO’s transit bus servicing

facility(1970’s to early 1990’s)

• METRO consented to environmentally clean up entire site

• METRO agreed to transfer “clean” property to SCIDpda for $150,000 in 1992

PRIOR USE AS TRANSIT REPAIR FACILITY

PARKING LOT ACROSS FROM REPAIR FACILITY

INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT VILLAGE SQUAREVISION

• Intergenerational development to serve community’s needs

• Affordable housing for seniors and families

• Services for elders and children• Medical, social, mental health• Childcare day center• Recreational• educational

VILLAGE SQUARE VISION’S REQUIRED INVESTMENT

•Phase 1(1998)--$27 million

•Phase 2(2004)--$25 million

IDVS 1(LEFT) AND IDVS 2(RIGHT)

VIEW OF OF IDVS 1 FROM NORTH

VIEW OF IDVS 1 LOOKING EAST

IDVS 2 LOOKING NORTHWEST

7TH AVENUE BLOCK REDEVELOPMENTVISION

• Revitalize underdeveloped block in heart of neighborhood

• 2 historic buildings• 3 underdeveloped parcels

• New affordable senior housing

• Hotel

• Performance and cultural center

FORMER AUTO SERVICE SITE

REPUBLIC HOTELHISTORIC BUILDING

KING COUNTY BROWNSFIELDS PROGRAMASSISTANCE TO SCIDPDA

• Grants• Technical Assistance

• 7th Avenue Service site• Phase 1 & 2 ESA

• Republic Hotel site• Phase 2 ESA

IMPORTANCE OF REDEVELOPING ENVIRONMENTALLYCHALLENGED LAND

• Land scarcity in urban settings

• Return land to productive uses

• Preservation of neighborhoods• Ethnic culture/character

QUESTIONS?