(AGENPARL) – gio 25 maggio 2023 Issued: May 25, 2023 (3:00pm EDT)
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EPA awards $2M for cleanup and revitalization of abandoned riverfront
high-rise in Fargo?
Fargo Housing and Redevelopment Authority to use Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
funding to address contamination, advance new development at Lashkowitz High
Rise?
Contacts? 
Fargo Housing and Redevelopment Authority: Chris Brungardt, Chief Executive
Officer, Fargo Housing and Redevelopment Authority, 701-293-6262,
Fargo, N.D. (May 25, 2023) – At an event in Fargo, North Dakota, today, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Senator John Hoeven and
officials from the City of Fargo announced the Fargo Housing and Redevelopment
Authority will receive a $2 million Brownfields Cleanup Grant funded by the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.  
The EPA grant will be used to clean up the Lashkowitz High Rise property at
101 2nd Street South, which overlooks the Red River in Fargo. The 22-story
high-rise is currently vacant and contaminated with asbestos, heavy metals and
other inorganic contaminants. The property’s cleanup will make way for its
safe reuse as affordable housing.? 
“The cleanup and revitalization of the Lashkowitz High Rise exemplifies how
EPA Brownfields funds can help communities revive properties and
neighborhoods,” said EPA Regional Administrator KC Becker. “We look
forward to seeing the building cleaned up and safely reused as much-needed
affordable housing along the city’s riverfront.”? 
“Remediating sites contaminated by hazardous substances and returning them
to productive use is a win-win for our communities,”?said U.S. Senator
Kevin Cramer. “These Bipartisan Infrastructure Law grants will help create
new opportunities at currently unusable locations.” 
The EPA funds are part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to
expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites while advancing
environmental justice through the Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan
Fund, and Cleanup (MARC) Grant programs. Thanks to the historic boost from the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this funding is the largest ever awarded in the
history of the EPA’s Brownfields MARC Grant programs. 
“The Lashkowitz served our community for the past 50+ years,” said Chris
Brungardt, Chief Executive Officer of the Fargo Housing and Redevelopment
Authority. “We are excited for the EPA Brownfields Grant to allow us to
abate hazardous materials and pave the way for the new 110-unit Lashkowitz
Riverfront. The new Lashkowitz will provide direly needed affordable housing
to our downtown neighborhoods.”? 
The cleanup of the high-rise will complement other EPA-supported cleanup and
redevelopment projects the city is targeting for nearby priority sites,
including the Mid-American Steel property (and former Fargo Foundry), American
Linen Drycleaners, Cretex Concrete Products and other sites of potential
concern in the downtown area.?? 
The EPA funds will enable the Fargo Housing and Redevelopment Authority to
safely remove a large volume of contaminants and hazardous building materials
from the building prior to demolition and reuse of the site.
Asbestos-containing materials within the high-rise include: ceiling spray,
floor tile and mastic, pipe fittings, structural fireproofing spray, sinks and
sheetrock joint compound. The cleanup activities will occur on all 22 floors
of the building.?? 
The current building will be demolished and rebuilt as Lashkowitz Riverfront.
This project will create affordable rental housing for over 290 people and
bring new life and business opportunities to part of the city’s
riverfront.? 
The grant to the Fargo Housing and Redevelopment Authority is among three
grants totaling $3.5 million EPA is awarding in North Dakota today. Other
grantees include: 
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians: $1 million 
McKenzie County: $500,000 
Background 
Thanks to the historic $1.5 billion boost from President Biden’s Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law, EPA’s Brownfields Program is helping more communities
than ever begin to address the economic, social and environmental challenges
caused by brownfields and stimulate economic opportunity and environmental
revitalization in historically overburdened communities.  
EPA’s Brownfields Program also advances President Biden’s Justice40
Initiative to direct 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal
investments to disadvantaged communities. Approximately 84% of the MARC
program applications selected to receive funding proposed to work in areas
that include historically underserved communities. 
EPA’s Brownfields Program began in 1995 and has provided nearly $2.37
billion in Brownfield Grants to assess and clean up contaminated properties
and return blighted properties to productive reuse. EPA’s investments in
addressing brownfield sites have leveraged more than $36 billion in cleanup
and redevelopment. Communities that previously received Brownfields Grants
used these resources to fund assessments and cleanups of brownfields, and
successfully leverage an average of 10.6 jobs per $100,000 of grant funds
spent and $19.78 for every dollar. 
More on Brownfields Grants.?? 
More on EPA’s Brownfields Program.? 
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