21024_Block 42_SNI_20180601

21052-17-060 / Block 42 (June 5, 2018)

SUMMARY OF NOTICE OF
INTENT TO REDEVELOP A BROWNFIELDS PROPERTY
Site Name: Block 42
Brownfields Project Number: 21024-17-060

Pursuant to NCGS § 130A-310.34, LMC Block 42 Holdings, LLC and LMV Block 42 Holdings, LP,
as Prospective Developer, have filed with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”)
a Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property (“Property”) in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina. The Brownfields Property, which is the former site of a lumber mill and wood products
company, bearing manufacturing company, food and beverage distributors, a printing company, an auto parts
company, and other commercial uses, consists of 3.55 acres and is located at 500 N. College Street. The
Brownfields Property includes the full city block bounded by College Street to the northwest, East 8th Street
to the southwest, Charlotte Area Transit System Light Rail Line to the southeast, and East 9th Street to the
northeast. Environmental contamination exists on the Brownfields Property in groundwater, soil, and soil
gas. LMC Block 42 Holdings, LLC and LMV Block 42 Holdings, LP have committed themselves to the
redevelopment of the Brownfields Property for retail, office, open space, recreation, high-density residential,
hotel, restaurant, brewery or food production facility, storage units, parking, and, subject to DEQ’s prior
written approval, other commercial uses. The Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property includes:
(1) a proposed Brownfields Agreement between DEQ and LMC Block 42 Holdings, LLC and LMV Block
42 Holdings, LP, which in turn includes (a) a map showing the location of the Property, (b) a description of
the contaminants involved and their concentrations in the media of the Property, (c) the above-stated
description of the intended future use of the Brownfields Property, and (d) proposed investigation and
remediation; and (2) a proposed Notice of Brownfields Property prepared in accordance with NCGS § 130A-
310.35.

The full Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property may be reviewed at the Robinson-
Spangler Carolina Room, 310 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202, [phone]; or at the offices of the N.C.
Brownfields Program, 217 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC or by contacting Shirley Liggins at that address,
at [e-mail], or at [phone]. The full Notice of Intent may also be viewed online at
the DEQ public record database, Laserfiche, by entering the project number 21024-17-060 into the search
bar at the following web address: http://edocs.deq.nc.gov/WasteManagement.

Written public comments may be submitted to DEQ within 30 days after the latest of the following
dates: the date this Notice is (1) published in a newspaper of general circulation serving the area in which
the Brownfields Property is located, (2) conspicuously posted at the Brownfields Property, and (3) mailed or
delivered to each owner of property contiguous to the Brownfields Property. Written requests for a public
meeting may be submitted to DEQ within 21 days after the period for written public comments begins. Those
periods will start no sooner than June 5, 2018, and will end on the later of: a) 30 and 21 days, respectively,
after that; or b) 30 and 21 days, respectively, after completion of the latest of the three (3) above-referenced
dates. All public comments and public meeting requests should be addressed as follows:

Mr. Bruce Nicholson
Brownfields Program Manager
Division of Waste Management
NC Department of Environmental Quality
1646 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1646