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Cleaning up pollution, improving communities

Bright yellow flowers in the foreground with a building behind, featuring large letters 'JXTA' on the facade. Red and gray abstract art decorates the glass entrance.

Hennepin County is celebrating 25 years of the Environmental Response Fund (ERF), the county’s brownfield redevelopment program that supports the cleanup and assessment of polluted properties.

This video highlights a few ERF-funded projects from around Hennepin County where communities were improved by environmental cleanup.


The ERF program is a catalyst for redevelopment in communities across Hennepin County. Each of the 500 projects supported through these funds has a story to tell like the ones highlighted in the video.

These projects spur economic growth and neighborhood revitalization. When comparing property values before and after assessment and cleanup, the completed ERF-aided projects have increased property values by more than $3.4 billion.

These projects also support housing development – more than 23,000 new or retained housing units; and jobs – with 25,000 jobs created or retained with these projects.

Learn more about the Environmental Response Fund at Brownfield cleanup funding.