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Brownfield sites in Lake County, Indiana
EPA lists 105 brownfield sites in Lake County. Grant recipients report them. 17 carry EPA's ready-for-reuse flag.
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The sites
Each row is a site name and city, as EPA holds them. Where several sites share a name, the count shows how many.
| Site | City | Sites | EPA flags |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100-acre Property | Gary | 1 | None |
| Aetna Elementary School | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Ambassador Hotel & Apartments | Gary | 1 | Ready for reuse |
| American Steel Foundry | East Chicago | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Art House | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Bear Brand Hosiery | Gary | 1 | None |
| Bear Brand Hosiery Company | Gary | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Bear Brand Hosiery Company (B) | Gary | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Bear Brand Hosiery Plant | Gary | 1 | None |
| Broadway and Euclid | East Chicago | 1 | Assessment |
| Bucko Construction Company | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Bult Fuel Oil Site | Highland | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Carter Bridegroom Properties | Hammond | 1 | Assessment |
| City of Gary Redevelopment - Former Konrady Oil | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Clark High School Athletic Field Area Redelopment | Hammond | 1 | Assessment |
| Commercial Property of Tonya Tammy Moore | Gary | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Daryl's Auto Tech, a.k.a. L & C Service Station | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Deodore & Broadway | East Chicago | 1 | Assessment |
| Dover Parking Area | Hammond | 1 | Assessment |
| East Chicago Dump | East Chicago | 1 | State or tribal program |
| Ec/Inland Site | East Chicago | 1 | None |
| Elite Wash Express a.k.a. Elite Car Wash | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Extended Filtration Property | East Chicago | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Benjamin Banneker Elementary | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Gary Fire Station No. 6 | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Inland Steel Personnel Buildings Property | East Chicago | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Former Konrady Oil | Gary | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Former Library On Madison Near 15th Street | Gary | 1 | None |
| Former Methodist Church | 46402 | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Sheraton Hotel | Gary | 1 | Ready for reuse |
| Former Smitty's Gas Station Property | Gary | 1 | Cleanup |
| Gc 018, 23, 32, 38 &39 | Whiting | 1 | None |
| General Services Building | Gary | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Genesis Center | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Gordons Building & Sears Building | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| GRIT Building | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Industrial Cinder Corporation Site No 77 | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| J-Pit | Gary | 1 | None |
| Lake Front Property | Gary | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Lakeshore Manor | East Chicago | 1 | Assessment |
| Lovell's Barbershop | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Northwest Indiana Community Action Group | Gary | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Old Roxana Park | East Chicago | 1 | Assessment |
| Palace Theater | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Parry Shaw Building | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| People's Bank Property | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Polish Army Veterans Association #1 | Hammond | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Polish Army Veterans Association #2 | Hammond | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Prairie Park Extension | East Chicago | 1 | Assessment |
| Riley Bank Building | East Chicago | 1 | Assessment |
| Sheraton Hotel | Gary | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Syed & Yasmin Tajuddin H&W | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Thomas A. Edison Middle School | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
| Vacant Property #4 | Lake Station | 1 | Assessment |
| Veteran's Park Expansion | East Chicago | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Watling Property | East Chicago | 1 | Assessment |
| Wayne's Tank and Trailer Repair | Gary | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| West Point Industrial Park | Hammond | 1 | None |
| Wirt Emerson High School | Gary | 1 | Assessment |
46 more sites have an address or parcel number as the EPA name. We count them but don't show the name.
To see each site in Lake County on a map, use the Cleanups in My Community map, on EPA's site.
EPA flags
| EPA flag | Sites |
|---|---|
| Ready for reuse | 17 |
| Assessment | 60 |
| Cleanup | 1 |
| Targeted assessment | 16 |
| State or tribal program | 1 |
| Multipurpose grant | 0 |
| Area-wide planning | 0 |
A site can carry more than one flag. The grant flags show which kinds of EPA brownfield funding a site is listed under.
What this data holds
- Acreage isn't in EPA's national data, so we don't show site sizes.
- We hold no flood data for these sites.
- We show the city and county, not street addresses.
- Grant recipients report these sites to EPA. A flag is EPA's record, not a site visit.
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US EPA data, as of 18 Oct 2026, reported by grant recipients. Not endorsed by EPA. Not legal or environmental advice; confirm with the state or EPA region.