The Cuyahoga Land Bank has been awarded nearly $18 million in brownfield remediation grants for several projects in and around Cleveland.

Most of those grants were for more than $2 million, the largest of which hit $2.5 million. The Land Bank owns two of the properties that were awarded grants and will administer grants for the other six projects, said Land Bank spokeswoman Rachel Trem.

A grant of $2.5 million was awarded for cleanup and remediation work at a former thermal steam plant along the Cleveland riverfront. That grant will support the demolition of the plant, which the state says will then be part of a $3.5 billion Bedrock development, along with public infrastructure improvements. It’s the project’s 10th round of such funding to date.

The property is owned and being developed by an entity controlled by Dan Gilbert’s companies, said Vince Adamus, an environmental project manager at the Land Bank that worked on the grant proposals.

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