Battle Lake was awarded $29,811 in cleanup funding for Hatchery Row, 0.58 acre site contaminated with petroleum.
Plans for this project are to redevelop it into a three-story, mixed-use building with up to 20 apartment units and 15,000 square feet of income property.
This is estimated to create 10 jobs and increase the tax base by $87,946. Funds will be matched by the city.
The grant from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development was part of $3.89 million in grants to eight communities across Minnesota to clean up or investigate 11 contaminated sites approved for redevelopment.
