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When you keep sweeping it under the rug, all you get is a BIG pile of DIRT
Read more: When you keep sweeping it under the rug, all you get is a BIG pile of DIRTToday was not a good day. This morning I received some information about the 17-acre contaminated site at Mackay Road and Gate City Blvd. – a site that got approved for redevelopment by the NC Brownfields Division of DEQ: a concrete/cement plant with a railroad/trucking distribution facility and storage silos on 18 acres at Mackay…
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Results: Groundwater, Soil, Surface Water tests at proposed concrete plant site
Read more: Results: Groundwater, Soil, Surface Water tests at proposed concrete plant siteSeveral days ago, a 917-page contamination assessment report for the 17-acre Brownfield site (proposed site for a cement/concrete trucking and rail facility) at McKay Road and Gate City Blvd was completed. The site is the former Fortress Wood Products site addressed at 1 Metals Drive, Greensboro, but it is in the Jamestown zoning jurisdiction and…
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Concrete/cement company buys 17-acre site at McKay & Gate City Blvd near Adams Farm
Read more: Concrete/cement company buys 17-acre site at McKay & Gate City Blvd near Adams FarmOn January 9, 2026, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania-based Silvi Concrete purchased Lester Properties’ contaminated 17.62-acre Brownfield site at MacKay Road and Gate City Blvd. The site is addressed in Greensboro, but located in the Jamestown ETJ between Fox Hollow/Adams Farm and the commercial strips along Gate City Blvd and Mackay Road (behind the Walgreens corner).…
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5009 MACKAY RD is on GSO zoning agenda for multi-family residential
Read more: 5009 MACKAY RD is on GSO zoning agenda for multi-family residential[NOTE: This is adjacent to the 17+ acre contaminated Brownfield site purchased by a Pennsylvania Concrete company that plans to build a concrete plant and trucking/train transport facility on the site]. TONIGHT, MONDAY, August 18, 2025, the Greensboro Zoning Commission will hear a request to rezone 5009 Mackay Road – which sits in the middle…
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More development planned on brownfield sites between Bull Run & Gate City Blvd
Read more: More development planned on brownfield sites between Bull Run & Gate City BlvdUPDATE April 23, 2024: No response yet to our November 2023 FOIA request for details on Alberdingk Boley’s wastewater spill into Bull Run (water supply stream), but a second Brownfield site has been approved for development consideration along this same short stretch of Gate City Boulevard: a 17-acre concrete plant and transport facility. Fortress Wood…
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