Official Project Title:
Brownfields Revisioning Project in North Kensington
Status: ongoing
Temple University’s Center for Sustainable Communities and its community partner, New Kensington Community Development Corporation is developing a Brownfields Area-Wide Plan for a key portion of Philadelphia’s Lower North Delaware Industrial District. The brownfields challenges in our project are representative of both location-specific factors and issues typical of brownfield redevelopment. 150 years of industrial history, from coal to textile or food distribution, cannot but leave a trace. Locational factors including high vacancy rates, weak market forces, and former industrial uses highlight the classic brownfields challenges of financial barriers, liability issues, and cleanup considerations. These difficulties coalesce to significantly impact economic, social, public health, and environmental justice concerns within the project area, and significantly hamper development. Our plan will summarize the cleanup and reuse implementation strategies for the catalyst sites using information obtained through research into community engagement, prioritization, existing conditions, partnerships, and potential resources.
PROJECT TASKS:
Existing Conditions Analysis – Spring & Summer 2016
Environmental, Social, and Public Health Conditions Analysis
Land Market and Infrastructure Analysis
Community Outreach and Visioning – Spring 2016
Community Meeting 1
Community Focus Groups and Photo-Voice mapping project
Scenario Development and Design – Fall 2016
Community Design Workshops
Development of Final Site Plans
Plan Implementation Strategies – Spring 2017
Development of Implementation Phases
Allocation of Roles for Plan Implementation
Identification of Funding Sources
Final Brownfield Area Wide Plan (BAWP) – Summer 2017
Draft Plan
Community Meeting 2
Final Plan
link to the CSC brownfields site: