Brownfield LeveragingOctober 27, 2015Anne Wallace, Deputy Director, Office of Redevelopment MADELINE ROGERO, MAYOR

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Knoxville’s Strategy Vision for Brownfield Redevelopment:

Appropriate redevelopment to bring vitality and livability back to those parts of the community that have seen economic decline – and create safe, secure, healthy neighborhoods where mixed-use development thrives

UNIVERSITY COMMONSUNIVERSITY COMMONS

2005 public master plan process Adoption of vision plan, form code and

redevelopment area Focus on private investment leveraging public

investment

South Waterfront – Context

2008 Application for petroleum and hazardous assessments

2009 Awarded $400,000 for both types of assessments

Community outreach – SW Newsletter, media releases & coordination with property owners

Conducted an area inventory to identify sites

Selected 12 Phase I Sites

Performed 7 Phase II Assessments

South Waterfront – Grant Information

Cityview Riverwalk Ext.

Suttree Landing Park

Former Baptist Hospital

South Waterfront – Potential Sites

Specialty Metals and Supply Corporation – a 3.13-acre site that formerly housed a casket manufacturing facility and a metal fabrication facility

Knox River Warehouses – a 6.87-acre site that was formerly used for textile manufacturing

Cityview Riverwalk Extension – a 2.97- acre site that formerly housed a vehicle repair garage and a bulk oil storage facility

Riverview Properties – a 1-acre site whose former uses included residential, a restaurant/tavern, auto repair, outboard motor repair, welding, and a furniture refinishing business

Regal Corporation Properties – a 3-acre site that formerly housed residences, textile dying operations, commercial laundry facilities, an engine parts manufacturer and bulk oil storage facilities

KCDC Properties Lot 4R1 – a 1.5-acre site that was formerly residential, a box and crate business and bulk oil storage

Former Baptist Hospital (6 parcels) – collectively a 23.5-acre site of a former hospital with related offices, medical suites, parking and commercial businesses.

South Waterfront – Selected Sites

Former Baptist Hospital Site 23 acre site Vacant since 2008 Phase I and Phase II

Assessment work 6 parcels for complex 6 Phase I reports 3 Phase II reports Lead based paint &

asbestos surveying Approximately $150K of

$400K grant

South Waterfront – Baptist Hospital

Baptist Hospital Brownfield – Summary

Blanchard Calhoun Commercial entered into a Voluntary Brownfield

Agreement with TDEC in December 2013

South Waterfront – Leverage