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Bluestone Built Green

The Ohio office park is a sustainable entity waiting for tenants.

By Debra Hazel | Updated on October 30, 2009

EUCLID, OH-It’s still underway, and the completion date undetermined, but one thing is certain: when the office and industrial markets return, Bluestone Business Park will be ready–and green. Site work is well under way on the office and industrial park to be built on the former site of a heavy manufacturing facility vacant since 1999. The brownfield is being remediated in a sustainable fashion, says developer Ray Fogg Corporate Properties, a co-developer of the project with the State of Ohio.

“It’s the way development should be done,” says Mike Merle, president of Ray Fogg Building Methods, the design/build division of Cleveland-based Fogg.

Named for a mineral abundant in the area, Bluestone also had a number of undesirable chemicals from its manufacturing past, including acidic wastes from pickling metal that affected the ph balance of the soil. Materials that could not be mitigated were removed from the site, while other contaminants were rendered non-hazardous.

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