The city's office of Economic Development plans to use the revolving loan to build a food and wine center on seven blighted acres in its historic Railroad Square district and clean up properties in the Gateway Development Area.
Santa Rosa Mayor Mike Martini said the money will help showcase Santa Rosa and Sonoma County's food and wine heritage. "This project will provide further stimulus to the successful businesses operating in historic Railroad Square,'' Martini said.
The EPA has awarded 143 Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund grants to 39 states totaling almost $91 million. Santa Rosa received $4 million.
The grants are used to encourage economic development in areas with high numbers of underused and abandoned properties with low levels of contamination from previous industrial or commercial use. Businesses use the low-interest and no-interest loans to clean up these "brownfield'' properties.
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