Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced recently that Kalispell will receive a $175,000 federal grant to help clean up and redevelop areas in the city’s downtown core. According to a press release from the Environmental Protection Agency, Kalispell is one of 23 communities nationwide receiving “a total of $4 million to develop plans for the reuse of brownfields properties.”
Brownfields are properties where the presence or potential presence of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants may complicate the properties’ expansion, redevelopment or reuse.
In a prepared statement, Kalispell City Manager Jane Howington said the money will be used to “provide the planning associated with the start of a revitalizing effort in the heart of Kalispell.”
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