The state awarded the city a $700,000 Brownfield Redevelopment Grant and a $300,000 Brownfield Redevelopment Loan to clean up the property to encourage its redevelopment. The property to be developed was used from the 1950s through the late 1990s to manufacture garage doors.

Several different owners operated on the property during this period; however, the property has been idle for a number of years. The new owner has conducted a baseline environmental assessment, and the state funding will be used to address environmental concerns and further investigate environmental issues beneath the building in preparation for redevelopment of the property.

Steven E. Chester, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, says he hopes more communities will take advantage of the brownfield grant and loan programs. Chester said since 1988, more than $123 million statewide has been provided by the state's brownfield fund.