Phoenix Awards 2003

The Phoenix Awards™, Recognition for Excellence in Brownfield Redevelopment, are widely recognized as the outstanding award for achievement of excellence in brownfields redevelopment. This prestigious award recognizes one winner from each of EPA’s 10 regions. Additional winners are selected for Community Impact Awards, recognizing exceptional projects in smaller communities. This year, The Phoenix Awards™ program created an International Award category, recognizing the growing prominence of brownfields worldwide.

The Center for Brownfields Initiatives offers their congratulations to each of the 2003 Phoenix Award Winners!

EPA Region 1 – Thames Street Landing, Bristol, Rhode Island: An $8.3 million mixed-use development consisting of retail establishments, restaurant, pub, offices, a 40-room inn, and apartments.

EPA Region 2 - EPA Region 2 - Lafayette Village Project, Jersey City, New Jersey: Consisting of 2-, 3-, and 4-bedroom units in garden, row, and semi-detached townhouses, this project ransformed a 6-acre urban brownfield into a 124-unit, mixed-income and mixed-financed residential community.

EPA Region 3 - Montgomery Park Business Center, Baltimore, Maryland: Combined the elements of brownfields remediation, multi-party financing, historic tax credits, and sustainable building concepts.

EPA Region 4 – Oak Ridge East Tennessee Technology Park Reindustrialization Program, Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Through its innovative Reindustrialization Program, the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Operations (DOE-ORO) is creating new jobs, facilitating cost-effective environmental cleanup, and promoting regional economic development.

EPA Region 5 – Consumers Energy Corporate Headquarters, Jackson, Michigan: Transformed an abandoned and contaminated 15-acre brownfield site located in downtown Jackson into an urban campus.

EPA Region 6 - Jack Evans Police Headquarters, Dallas, Texas: Redevelopment of this former brownfields site provided both a new police headquarters for the City of Dallas and the lasting tenant security needed to revitalize the 300-acre Cedars neighborhood.

EPA Region 7 – Westside Business Park, Kansas City, Missouri: The Kansas City Terminal Railway rail yard has been transformed into more than 240,000 sq. ft. of office space in the new Westside Business Park.

EPA Region 8 – Gateway/500 West Park Blocks Project, Salt Lake City, Utah: Worked hand-in-glove to revitalize the Depot District of Salt Lake City. The 40-acre site provides 2.5 million square feet of space for retail, entertainment, office, cultural facilities, a public plaza, underground and structured parking, 500-residential units, and a hotel.

EPA Region 9 – Bay Street Project, Emeryville, California: Highlights the City of Emeryville as a city in transition that embraces and preserves its rich cultural past while utilizing creative techniques to stimulate economic and social development.

EPA Region 10 - South Waterfront Redevelopment Project, Portland, Oregon: Implemented a long-range development plan focused on creating a downtown mixed-use residential neighborhood.

Community Impact Award – Andrew Rypien Field, Spokane, Washington: A consortium of local community groups, government entities, and private corporations worked together to transform a Superfund site listed on EPA's National Priorities List since 1994, into a sports complex serving over 4,500 neighborhood children.

Community Impact Award – Unity Junior High School, Cicero, Illinois: Faced with the prospect of condemning large tracts of existing housing to make room for a school, Cicero School District 99 instead decided to target an 18-acre former industrial property for redevelopment.

International Award - The Moncton Shops Property, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada: Since 1996, Canada Lands Company CLC Limited (CLC) has owned and developed the Moncton Shops. This former brownfield has been transformed from a vacant environmentally challenged property into a ‘crown jewel’ of Eastern Canada.