Brownfields

The approximately 12-acres site was industrially developed in the early 1950s as an expansion to a portion of the original John-Manville Facility, a facility that manufactured products containing asbestos for use in roofing, flooring, and piping.  

Leaaf was contracted by JEDCO to provide a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) funded though their Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfields Coalition Assessment Grant.

Leaaf completed a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) on a commercial strip mall in East Baton Rouge Parish.

This Brownfields project was completed as part of the corporate agreement between the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's (LDEQ’s) Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) program and Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) Brownfield and Land Revitalization Program.

The Shreveport Common project is located at the southeast corner of the Shreveport Common Creative Placemaking revitalization project.  This property, unused for decades, is situated in downtown Shreveport and has been slated for redevelopment. 

The historic four-story Lincoln Hotel was opened in 1955.  It was initially created as a place for African Americans to stay when they were almost always turned away from white-owned establishments. Legendary musicians from all across the world have stayed and performed, including Aretha Franklin, James Brown, BB King, Duke Ellington and more!  The property has been vacant since the 1980s and will finally be restored.

The New Life Center site is part of the downtown Revitalization Plan being developed with the City of Opelousas, the Acadiana Planning Commission (APC), and the Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX) and a target property fro a Local Foods, Local Places grant. 

Contract: Leaaf was recently awarded a contract to conduct Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Targeted Brownfields

The site served as a rural community hospital from the 1960s-2000s that was part of the Hill Burton federal grant program and the First Hospital District of St. Martin and St. Landry Parishes.