Mayor Don Walters has announced that the City of Cuyahoga Falls, in partnership with the Community Improvement Corporation of Cuyahoga Falls, has been awarded the State of Ohio Department of Development Brownfield Remediation Grant in the amount of $1,044,549. The funding will be used to remediate environmental contaminants at the former Mud Run Gun Club, 333 Pleasant Meadow Boulevard.
“The city is grateful to be the recipient of these valuable grant dollars so that the property can be safely and sustainably cleaned up and repurposed,” stated Mayor Don Walters. “With the Cuyahoga River and the many hiking and biking trails of the Summit Metro Parks and Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Cuyahoga Falls is a hub for recreational opportunities, and the remediation of the Mud Run Gun Club will help us expand recreational access in our city.”
The city is required to provide a 25 percent funding match as part of the grant agreement. The property is expected to be remediated by the early summer of 2023.
The grant is the second brownfield remediation grant from The State of Ohio from which the city will benefit. In April of this year, the Summit County Land Reutilization Corporation was awarded over $200,000 for contaminant remediation assessment survey along South Front Street on a former industrial site that will be utilized for the development of townhomes.