Fehr Graham is helping clean up one of the largest brownfield sites in central Illinois. The project made national news when The Associated Press explored the unique project spearheaded by Moving Pillsbury Forward, a nonprofit group dedicated to "community redevelopment to eliminate and prevent blight in and around the former Pillsbury Mills site."...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced more than $315 million from President Joe Biden's Investing in America Agenda to expedite brownfield assessment and cleanup projects. Fehr Graham helped clients secure more than $5 million, including Illinois' largest cleanup grant. The EPA selected 262 communities to receive 267 grants that ...
The City of Dixon's held a groundbreaking April 27 to mark the start of Phase III of its Riverfront Development Master Plan Viaduct Point pathway expansion project. The event was held at the former Dixon Iron and Metal site, after several years of environmental cleanup along the Rock Riverfront. Fehr Graham helped secure grant funding for the proje...
Fehr Graham is helping clean up one of the largest brownfield sites in central Illinois. The project recently made national news when an early image of the Pillsbury Doughboy was discovered on a control panel at the abandoned Springfield, Illinois, plant. Check out this State-Journal Register story in USA Today, where Chris Richmond, Moving Pillsbu...
After deteriorating for more than 20 years, what was once home to thousands of employees and served as one of Rockford's largest employers is on the cusp of being brought back to life. The Rock River Current details the process of the historic blighted property. The Barber-Colman industrial complex rests on 22 acres along Rock and South Main s...
Rock River Current Managing Editor Kevin Haas details next steps for the former Barber-Colman property in southwest Rockford. Fehr Graham helped with site remediation for the property. J.Jeffers & Co., a Milwaukee-based real estate development firm that specializes in historic and adaptive reuse, unveiled plans Tuesday at a Zoning Board of...
The long abandoned Pillsbury plant in Springfield, Illinois, is one step closer to being torn down, thanks to efforts by the nonprofit Moving Pillsbury Forward and Fehr Graham.Fehr Graham conducted a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment at the 18-acre site, which is one of the largest brownfield sites in central Illinois. The plant...
Fehr Graham is helping Moving Pillsbury Forward regenerate one of the largest brownfield sites in central Illinois. The Pillsbury plant in northeast Springfield closed 21 years ago but left behind 20 buildings on 18 acres that are a hazard for the 12,000 people who live within a mile. Ridding this blight will stabilize the comm...
The Biden Administration, through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), awarded $6.75 million in brownfield grants to five Illinois communities to address or clean up brownfields. Among them are two Fehr Graham clients, the cities of Ottawa and Rockford. The City of Ottawa will receive a $300,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant to conduct 15...
Eleven projects, including a new YMCA facility in Ottawa, will get $16.5 million in Rebuild Illinois Regional Economic Development program grants, according to news announced today by Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. The grants are intended to fuel continued economic development across Illinois and ...
Eyesore in your town? DNR grants available to reduce blight in small Iowa communities. Small rural communities and counties in Iowa can take advantage of grant money to help renovate or demolish abandoned commercial and public buildings. To qualify for the Derelict Building Grant Program through the Iowa Department of Natural Resourc...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is cleaning up the former Dixon Iron & Metal Co. in downtown Dixon. The former scrapyard, seen here in April 2018, has been leaching contaminants into the nearby Rock River. Cleanup of an old downtown scrapyard along the Rock River in Dixon, Illinois, began this week, thanks to help from the fed...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $400,000 in Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) money to help the City of Rockford continue to clean up and redevelop brownfield properties. Rockford is one of 24 communities in the RLF program to receive the funding. The City has participated in the program since the early 200...
Projects in Rockford, Illinois, like Colman Village (pictured above), Embassy Suites and the UW Health Sports Factory benefited from funding from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants. The cities of Rockford and South Beloit were each awarded $300,000 EPA Community-wide Assessment Grants, which will help fund assessments of brownfield s...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the city of Dubuque, Iowa, a grant to help the community address brownfield sites. The $800,000 Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup Grant will help Dubuque expand, redevelop or reuse properties where there could be hazardous contaminants. City officials hope to target the downtown di...
Furst-McNess Co. and Fehr Graham were awarded a 2018 ACEC-IL Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Illinois. Furst-McNess hired Fehr Graham to clean up one of its properties, the former WEK Holdings site, in Freeport, Illinois. The effort won a Merit Award in a new nomination category – Environment...
