On January 9, 2026, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania-based Silvi Concrete purchased Lester Properties’ 17.62-acre Brownfield site at MacKay Road and Gate City Blvd. The site is addressed as One Metals Drive, Greensboro, but it is zoned in the Jamestown ETJ between Fox Hollow/Adams Farm and the commercial strips along Gate City Blvd and Mackay Road (behind the Walgreens corner).
The site was marketed in real estate listings as a “LIGHT INDUSTRIAL” commercial property, but it is zoned “INDUSTRIAL” even though it is surrounded by residential, retail and commercial zones.
Locally, Silvi is represented by D.R. Horton lawyer Marc Isaacson, with Amanda Hodierne as registered agent for Silvi’s new North Carolina company, called “Metals Drive Concrete LLC:”
The most recent document in the NCDEQ public records is a proposed soil and groundwater assessment dated June 26, 2025. Project Manager Lauren Fleming said the Brownfields Redevelopment Section is “still in the process of reviewing and approving the assessment report and Environmental Management Plan with the Prospective Developer [Silvi].” Here’s the Assessment plan:
BACKGROUND
On January 8, 2025, a revised Brownfield application was submitted for redevelopment of the 17.62-acre former Fortress Wood Products site at Mackay Road and Gate City Blvd .
The prospective developer/responsible party was listed as Riverside Construction Materials, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania concrete company Silvi Construction Materials.
Lester Properties, owner of Fortress Wood Products, is acting as realtor.
In April 2025, the Greensboro Council adopted a resolution to approve a water and sewer connection to service the site:
In April 2024, the 17.62-acre site was listed for sale by Lester Properties (owner) which is based in Martinsville, Va.
Assessment reports in the NCDEQ public records show high levels of petroleum hydrocarbons, chromium, arsenic, lead, copper, mercury, barium, cadmium and TCE (trichloroethylene) present in the soil and groundwater.
The real estate listings marketed the property with a Greensboro address, zoned as LIGHT INDUSTRIAL: “Commercial Zoning 17.62 acres Light Industrial (LI), 1.09 acres HB.”
The site is located in Jamestown’s ETJ, and in Jamestown’s planning jurisdiction:
The images below (swipe left) are from the Guilford County GIS property records site:
In 2024, Lester Properties applied for Brownfield status.
Included with the application were soil and groundwater surveys from 10 years ago.
The authors of a 615-page report by Progress Environmental said groundwater at the site is contaminated to a depth of at least five feet, and properties within a half-mile radius of the site have reported contamination:
High levels of TCE and chromium have also been detected at two nearby sites, also on West Gate City Blvd. TCE is carcinogenic to humans by all routes of exposure, including vapor intrusion (TCE in the groundwater or water table can form a vapor that migrates through soil and into structures.)
Groundwater contaminants at the Alberdingk Boley site include arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, thallium, zinc, acetone, benzene, chlorobenzene, chloroform, 1,4 dichlorobenzene, 1,1 dichloroethene, 1,2 dichloroethane, ethylbenzene, tetrachloroethene, 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene, xylenes, trichloroethene, vinyl chloride, naphthalene, antimony. Soil contaminants include acetone, tetrachloroethene, ethylbenzene, 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene, xylenes, isopropyl benzene, trichloroethene, napthalene, 2-butanone, 1,1,1-trichloroethane.
The engineers observed impact areas of “stressed vegetation” near streams and wrote in their report that “NC DEQ records indicate that the stormwater runoff” impacts Bull Run stream and the Deep River (Randleman Lake) watershed:
The site is in the Randleman Critical Water Supply WS-IV Watershed.
Lester Properties’ listing says the site offers the potential of “direct rail access” to Norfolk Southern and close proximity to Fedex and PTI airport.
The site map shown on the property listing is from February 1987 (revised July 1994):
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