SEBRING, Ohio – After several months of soil testing and planning, cleanup work is underway at the former Royal China.
The Mahoning County Land Bank recently approved a roughly $700,000 contract with Deerfield-based United Earthworks to reclaim or remove infected soil from the 20-acre site. The agreement also covers the delivery of approximately 1,800 trucks of virgin land to the assets as part of the efforts to prepare it for redevelopment.
The land bank expects the paintings to be finished by early July.
The Sebring site has remained quiet since the 1980s, when Royal China, once a major domestic tableware manufacturer with more than 700 employees, closed the factory it had operated for more than 80 years. The buildings on the site were demolished in 2010, but the cost of treating the infected soil is an impediment to redevelopment.
The land bank acquired the site in 2020 through a tax lien and deployed it for a $1. 5 million cleanup grant in early 2022. In 2022, the state approved this grant as a component of a new program to repair brownfield in the state. These funds, along with local investments from Mahoning County and the new landowner, funded the development of plans and testing activities, as well as cleanup.
After the cleanup, the landowner, Michael Conny, owner of MAC Trailer in Alliance, will need to apply for regulatory approval to commercialize the site for development.
CREDIT: Mahoning County Land Bank.
Pictured above: These trucks filled with blank soil will be used to shape a containment zone for lead-contaminated soil in the northeast segment of the blank site. A gently sloping hill will be seeded with 2 feet of blank fill and left undeveloped. (Mahoning County Land Bank)
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