Archived TPI Information
Trails and Parks Initiative (TPI)
The Indiana Brownfields Program Trails and Parks Initiative (TPI) is no longer available as the three-year U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) assessment funding project period for TPI ended on March 31, 2011. A total of $600,000 in TPI assessment funding has been expended for several brownfield projects statewide, some of whose summaries are listed below.
TPI Success Stories
- TPI Map
- Scribner Place, New Albany - January 2009
- B-Line Trail, Bloomington - April 2009
- B-Line and Scribner Place Trails Open - August 2009
- Bloomington and New Albany TPI Site Updates 2009-August 2009
- Former Lakeview Nursing Home/Maple Street Pond Park, Terre Haute - June 2010
- National Road Heritage Trail in Terre Haute-September 2009
- Brown Boulevard in Terre Haute-September 2009
- Former Shouse Landfill in Plainfield-August 2009
- Ohio River Greenway in New Albany-August 2009
- Former Gill Clay Pot in Muncie-September 2009
- Former CSX Freight Depot in Clinton-September 2009
Resources for Recreational Reuses
- Trust for Public Land-Resources for Brownfields to Park Projects: The Trust for Public Land devotes several web pages to brownfield to park modeal projects and brownfield to urban sculpture gardens. TPL's Center for City Park Excellence documents the role of parks in 75 new redevelopment projects accross the country. Peter Harnick's book "Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities" (Island Press, 2010) offers "16 practical and realistic methods of making new parks in every kind of U.S. city, even such crowded places as Boston, Chicago, San Fransisco, and New York."
- Trails and Parks Initiative Fact Sheet
- TPI Assessment Award Guidelines
- TPI Access Agreement Form
- TPI Consultants
- TPI Press Release (October 2008)
- TPI Application
Online Services
Project Highlights
The Town of Ligonier is in the process of recycling materials from demolition of buildings on the four-acre former Essex Wire brownfield site, which is planned for redevelopment as a river park and possibly the future home of a fire station.
Top FAQs I Want To...
- Find a Brownfield in my community.
- Apply for financial assistance.
- Read applicable cleanup standards.
- Download public records.
- Research Brownfields issues.
- Contact Brownfields Program staff.
- Obtain a liability clarification.
- Submit a brownfield success story.
- Make a suggestion about the Program.
- Submit a Brownfields Program Project Survey.
