Brownfield | A Brownfield is developed real property which may or may not be contaminated or environmentally impacted from prior use. These unknown conditions raise questions standing in the way of the property’s sale or redevelopment, which reduce its value and require investigation and assessment. Examples of Brownfields include former industrial sites, gas stations, dry cleaners, fuel and chemical depots and any other property that used or contained hazardous materials or petroleum. Brownfields also include properties affected by contamination migrating from a neighboring or nearby property. Brownfields may not be contaminated in reality, but suspicion creates stigma that impairs the property’s potential. |
Greyfield | A Greyfield is developed real property suffering from excess vacancy, prolonged idleness, blight, use failure or even total abandonment—but also possessing (potentially) reusable infrastructure, such as parking lots, utility hookups, or structures. Examples of Greyfields include obsolete retail and commercial properties and abandoned office complexes, as well as mothballed, decommissioned and legacy industrial facilities. Similar to Brownfields, Greyfields may be blighted or in substantial disrepair, but unlike Brownfields they have no known or suspected environmental contamination of any significance. |
Greenfield | A greenfield is undeveloped real estate with no previous use. Many also consider a property only used for light agricultural purposes to be a greenfield. An undeveloped property may yet have environmental contamination—if, for example, it is adjacent to a property that is leaking hazardous substances across the property boundary—but such a property would not be considered a greenfield and would be better classified as a Brownfield (or possibly a Redfield). |
Redfield | A Redfield is real property with known environmental contaminants or conditions that the owner, the government or a reliable third party have determined is in need of remediation as a prerequisite to future development—to mitigate potential human health risks or to comply with environmental laws. Many Redfields are already subject to government regulatory orders or enrolled in voluntary cleanup programs. Unlike a Brownfield, there can be no doubt about whether a Redfield is contaminated. A Redfield is affirmatively known to be contaminated and will likely require active remediation in its redevelopment. Contaminated property could fit into the definition of Brownfield; however, selecting Redfield as the primary statussignals the marketplace that real estate reuse requires corrective action and such remediation is sought. |
Productive Use |
A property with productive use as the primary status is predominately in use at the present time. Properties in productive use may have current tenants generating rents or the owner may be operating the property for their own use. If only a small portion of the property is currently in use, then the lister may select productive use as a secondary condition and would choose a more appropriate primary status. |
Undetermined | If the property status has not been determined or is unknown by the lister, it may be selected as "undetermined." |
Bluefield | A Bluefield possesses water resources itself or has access to a navigable body of water such as a river, sea or ocean—either directly or via canal or port. |
UPSHUR COUNTY YOUTH CAMP
Upshur County Commission
Property/Project Stage:
Getting Started
Assessment
Site Prep
Redevelopment
76 Youth Camp Road, Selbyville, WV 26236
Created On: 11/16/2018 |
Last Modified: 12/27/2018

REQUESTING PROPOSALS
Property/Project Name:
Upshur County Youth Camp
Property/Project Number:
BF-96354301
Ownership:
Publicly Owned
Property/Project size (acres):
0.8
Structures on site:
no
Brownfield Acres
Description:
From approximately 1908 to 1935, a company produced charcoal, wood alcohol, and calcium acetate by burning timber in air-tight kilns or ovens. The site was used for the disposal of pine tar, a byproduct of its operations.
Active
Public
Location
Expanded Data - Diligence Prospectus
Tax & Title
Parcel ID number (if different than Tax ID Number):
Banks District, Map No. 5s, Parcel No. 51
Deed Book 111, Page number 228
Tax liens:
no
Utilities
Electric available:
yes
Environmental Conditions
(1 report(s) available)
Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) report available:
yes
Completed Date:
2016-05-10
Completed By:
Donald W. Martin, II
Uploaded File(s):
Phase II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) report available:
yes
Completed Date:
2016-12-16 Completed By:
Envirocheck
Phase III cleanup plans/reports available:
no
Ongoing legal action:
no
Site ever involved in environmental litigation:
no
Ecological and Natural Resources
Located in a 100 year floodplain:
yes
Prairie/Grasslands present:
no
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