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Asbury Park City officials met with lawmakers on June 30th, at a longtime vacant, contaminated lot scheduled to be restored as part of a nationwide focus on revitalizing polluted urban properties. The site is one of four in Asbury Park that will be cleaned up with $500,000 in spending on remediation through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Program. Across New Jersey, another $6 million in cleanup funds will be distributed for properties in Perth Amboy, Atlantic City, Bridgeton, Jersey City, Millville, Paterson, Trenton, Hamilton and Camden. McCabe, of the Environmental Protection Agency, said that investing in urban pollution cleanup brings more local tax revenue, higher home values and new jobs to communities.