Brewery at the Former Monroe Oil Bulk Oil Transfer Station in Bloomington, Indiana?

Not yet, anyway. Would anyone like to make $1 million by investing 10 million? Don't forget to not pay yourself.

I noticed this building last time we were in Bloomington, and received the information below from the listed environmental consultants. Whether for brewing or not, the site appears ripe for adaptive reuse, especially given its proximity to the B-Line Trail.

Fields Environmental, Inc. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING SERVICES

Brownfields IV, LLC
The Former Monroe Oil Bulk Oil Transfer Station
229 West First Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47403

This site is a work in progress. The original owner and operator was Standard Oil of Indiana, a company spearheaded by John D. Rockefeller, who constructed the building in 1918. The site transferred ownership several times and was officially closed in 2005. The property is delapidated since its closure due to minor fires, extensive grafitti and vandalism, and homeless individuals who have sought shelter in the building.

Riverfront Development three-way alcohol permits now to include gratis brownfield studies.

Just kidding. Why is it the phrase "community garden" keeps popping into my head?

New Albany to provide grants for brownfields studies; City says program could encourage development, by Daniel Suddeath (N and T)

NEW ALBANY — Brownfields doesn’t have to be a dirty word.

In general terms, a property is considered a brownfields site if it had previously been developed. Typically before a new development can occur on a brownfields site, studies have to be performed to determine if there’s any contamination on the property.

Morrison on River Ridge: "When did we start farming brownfields?"

The newspaper dutifully “reports” a press release, while it is left to a citizen blogger to provide the background necessary to even begin asking the many obvious questions raised by the guileless stenography. So it goes in Stemlerstan.

When did we start farming brownfields?, by Curt Morrison at Louisville Courant

As a kid growing up in rural Southern Indiana, I knew the 10,000+ acre, Indiana Army Ammunition Plant was blighted by long-term pollution. My step-dad had told me. It wasn't a secret back then.

That's why I was surprised to hear in it's last meeting of 2011, the River Ridge Development Authority which has owned and controlled the former Plant since 1998, announced they're offering more than 360 acres of land to farmers. (News and Tribune: River Ridge offering land to farmers: Farm leases expected to bring in additional revenues)

Open thread: Brownfields clean-up at old Hoosier Panel site?

Here's the scoop from the morning C-J.

New Albany Redevelopment Commission order new tests on site, by Grace Schneider (Courier-Journal).

New Albany's plan to buy an old industrial woodworking site as a possible "brownfields" reclamation project has raised concerns because of a recent environmental report that found heavy metals in groundwater there.

The findings of the study prompted the New Albany Redevelopment Commission to order additional tests for the former Hoosier Panel site at 2045 Silver St. to determine whether the contamination has spread beyond the property. The 15-acre site borders a residential area.

NA in the Indiana Brownfields Bulletin.

From Mike Ladd of the UEA comes this good civic PR from the Indiana Brownfields Bulletin. Follow the link, scroll to page 7, and enjoy the photos.

On November 15, 2008, the City of New Albany celebrated the grand opening of its new YMCA and Aquatic center ...

... This brownfield redevelopment project is in a formerly contaminated area of New Albany along the Ohio River that has a long history of industrial blight. The site was assessed using an Indiana Brownfields Program (Program) assessment grant and cleaned up using a portion of $400,000 in cleanup grant funds from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency ...

Read the rest at Indiana Brownfields Bulletin.