HomeMy WebLinkAbout19070_Fmr Gussmans Cleaners_SNI State of Emergency_20210126SUMMARY OF NOTICE OF
INTENT TO REDEVELOP A BROWNFIELDS PROPERTY
Brownfields Property Name: Gussman's Cleaners
Brownfields Project Number: 19070-15-025
Pursuant to the North Carolina Brownfields Property Reuse Act (the "Act") authorized by North Carolina
General Statutes (NCGS) § 130A-310.30 through 130A-310.40, and specifically pursuant to NCGS § 130A-
310.34, Polo Enterprises, LLC, as Prospective Developer, has filed with the North Carolina Department of
Environmental Quality ("DEQ") a Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property ("Property") located at
223 Craven Street, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. The Brownfields Property, which is the former
site of a dry-cleaners, consists of 0.158 acres. Environmental contamination exists on the Brownfields Property in
soil and groundwater. Polo Enterprises, LLC has committed itself to no uses other than retail, multi -family
residential, raised -bed gardens, associated parking, and subject to DEQ's prior written approval, other commercial
uses on the Brownfields Property. The Notice of Intent to Redevelop a Brownfields Property includes: (1) a
proposed Brownfields Agreement between DEQ and Polo Enterprises, LLC, 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 online at the DEQ public
record database, Laserfiche, by entering the project number 19070-15-025 into the search bar at the following web
address:
https://edocs.deq.nc.goviWasteMana,gement/Welcome.aspx?dbid=0&repo=WasteMana eg ment
The "Act" requires a public comment period of at least 30 days. The first day of public comment is defined
as the day after which all of the following public notice tasks have occurred: 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 public comments may be submitted to DEQ within 30 days after
the public comment period begins. Written requests for a public meeting may be submitted to DEQ within 21 days
after the public comment period begins. These periods will start no sooner than February 8, 2021, and will end
no sooner than the later of. 1) 30 and 21 days, respectively, after that; or 2) 30 and 21 days, respectively, after
completion of the latest of the three (3) above -referenced tasks, if such completion occurs later than the date stated
herein. 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
19070-15-025/Fmr. Gussman's Cleaners/26hn2021