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Brownfield sites in Essex County, Massachusetts
EPA lists 177 brownfield sites in Essex County. Grant recipients report them. 41 carry EPA's ready-for-reuse flag.
177Sites
41Ready for reuse
137Assessment flag
16Cleanup flag
Zoning: Check zoning with the city.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-1 Deli | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Abandoned Warehouse Building | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Amesbury Wharf | Amesbury | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Appleyard Trucking | Methuen | 1 | Assessment |
| Atlantic Transmission | Amesbury | 1 | Assessment |
| Azorean Brotherhood of the Divine Holy Ghost | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Battye Property | Methuen | 1 | Assessment |
| Bennington Triangle | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| Bodwell Site | Lawrence | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Bolton Emerson Americas Site | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| Bradford Rail Trail | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Brook Street Park | Lawrence | 1 | None |
| Brown School | Newburyport | 1 | None |
| Cape Ann Forge | Gloucester | 1 | Ready for reuse |
| Cape Pond Ice | Gloucester | 1 | Assessment |
| Century Bank | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| CI Group Marketing and Visual Support | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| City Branch Rail Corridor | Newburyport | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Cyr Oil | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| Dickey Building | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| DPW Garage Relocation (Proposed DPW Facility) | Boxford | 1 | Assessment |
| DPW Yard | Newburyport | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Dutton Airfield | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Eastern Bank | Peabody | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Emmaus Property | Haverhill | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Empire Laundry | Lynn | 1 | None |
| Essex Company | Lawrence | 1 | None |
| Essex Shipbuilding Museum | Essex | 1 | Ready for reuse, Cleanup, Targeted assessment |
| Everett Mills | Lawrence | 1 | None |
| Ferrous Site | Lawrence | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Fmr Cameron's Restuarant | Gloucester | 1 | Assessment |
| Forest City | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Andrew Wilson Property | Lawrence | 1 | None |
| Former Auto Body Shop and Truck Garage | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Former B&M Railroad Line | Newburyport | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Beacon Chevrolet Site | Lynn | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Former Bob-Kat Leather Company | Peabody | 1 | Assessment, State or tribal program |
| Former Catholic Church and School | Lawrence | 1 | Ready for reuse, State or tribal program |
| Former Chadwick Lead Mill | Salem | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Former Clark Steel Drum Company | Peabody | 1 | Assessment, Cleanup |
| Former Flynntan site | Salem | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Fuller School Site | Gloucester | 1 | None |
| Former Henry Leather Company | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Keefe's Restaurant (Palmer Street) | Salem | 1 | None |
| Former Lucent Technologies Property | North Andover | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Merrimac Paper | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment, Cleanup |
| Former MGP Site | Gloucester | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Municipal Light Plant | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Former Omni-Wave Facility | Gloucester | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Former Trader Alan's Truck Stop | Amesbury | 1 | Assessment |
| Fulton Gravel Pit | Newburyport | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Furlong Park | Salem | 1 | Assessment |
| GenCorp | Lawrence | 1 | None |
| Gonyea Park | Salem | 1 | Assessment |
| Haverhill Housing Authority - Brown Street | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Hayes Building | Haverhill | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment, Cleanup |
| Heritage Caning Company | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Hooker Howe | Haverhill | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment, Cleanup, State or tribal program |
| Hooker Howe/Webster Building | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Horace Mann School | Amesbury | 1 | Assessment |
| ICBA Building | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| In Town Mall | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| Lawrence Stripper | Methuen | 1 | Assessment |
| Lee Fort Terrace | Salem | 1 | Ready for reuse |
| Ludwig Cleaners | Saugus | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| Lynn Armory | Lynn | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Marine Railways | Gloucester | 1 | Targeted assessment |
| MBTA Viaduct Property | Lynn | 1 | Assessment |
| McKenna's Mountain | Salisbury | 1 | Assessment |
| McManus Neptune Blvd Park | Lynn | 1 | Assessment |
| Memorial School | Salisbury | 1 | Assessment |
| Methuen Highway Department Garage | Methuen | 1 | Assessment |
| Methuen Mill property | Methuen | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Metro Cleaners | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Microfab | Amesbury | 1 | None |
| Moderno Furniture | Haverhill | 1 | None |
| Newburyport Armory Garage | Newburyport | 1 | Assessment |
| Newman Building | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| North Common Neighborhood Alleyways | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| North River Project Area 3 | Salem | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Notini's property | Methuen | 1 | None |
| Off Island Street | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| Open Space | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Ornsteen Heel | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Pemberton Park | Lawrence | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Perkins Pond | Newburyport | 1 | Assessment |
| Phoenix Row | Haverhill | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Pier 7 Marina | Gloucester | 1 | Assessment |
| Ply Craft | Lawrence | 1 | None |
| Producers Fish Company | Gloucester | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Proposed Affordable Housing Location | Boxford | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Rail Road Corridor | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| Sagamore Street Park | Lynn | 1 | Assessment |
| Salem Suede | Salem | 1 | Assessment |
| Sam's Creek Investigation | Essex | 1 | State or tribal program |
| Scouting Way Site | Peabody | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Searles Estate | Methuen | 1 | Assessment |
| Sheridan Street Park | Lynn | 1 | Assessment |
| Single Story Apartments | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Space Age Dry Cleaners | Amesbury | 1 | Assessment |
| Station 8 | Lynn | 1 | Assessment |
| Station Place | Gloucester | 1 | None |
| Stevens Street Mill | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Stoller Property/Forest City Residential | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Storage Property | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Surplus Office Supply | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment |
| Szetela Lane | Salem | 1 | Assessment |
| Tarr & Wonson Paint Factory | Gloucester | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment, Cleanup, Targeted assessment |
| Ted's for Tires | Haverhill | 1 | Assessment, Cleanup |
| Tombarello (Rear) | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment, Cleanup |
| Union Crossing | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| US Post Office | Peabody | 1 | Assessment |
| Visitor's Center | Amesbury | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Wadleigh House | Haverhill | 1 | Ready for reuse, Assessment |
| Walnut Street Pump Station | Lynn | 1 | None |
| Water Treatment Plant | Lawrence | 1 | Assessment |
| Whyte's Laundry | Lynn | 1 | Assessment, Cleanup, State or tribal program |
60 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 Essex County on a map, use the Cleanups in My Community map, on EPA's site.
EPA flags
| EPA flag | Sites |
|---|---|
| Ready for reuse | 41 |
| Assessment | 137 |
| Cleanup | 16 |
| Targeted assessment | 11 |
| State or tribal program | 6 |
| Multipurpose grant | 0 |
| Area-wide planning | 1 |
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.