Construction has started on another parcel on the southeast corner of Kinsman and Madison roads in Middlefield Village, but the weather is causing delays.
Construction has started on another parcel on the southeast corner of Kinsman and Madison roads in Middlefield Village, but the weather is causing delays.
“We’re stuck in the mud, right now,” said Marty Troyer, project superintendent for the structure planned for the 8.7-acre parcel just east of Chem Tech Properties Ltd.
The 27,500-square-foot building, still in the excavation stages, will house Mid Park Metals that will relocate from its current facility at 16654 Hosmer Road in Parkman Township, he said.
The one-story building will warehouse the metal siding and roofing produced at the Hosmer Road site. Eventually, the roll forming equipment will be moved to the new facility, which Troyer said should be competed in six months, weather permitting.
The facility will employ four to eight workers and should be under roof by winter, he said.
The parcel was part of a farm bought by Red Creek Development Inc., which made parcels available for sale in 2017. The 8.7-acre lot that fronts on Kinsman Road was bought in 2020 by Mid Park Metals owner Wesley Shrock of Sugarcreek, Ohio, according to the Geauga County Auditor’s Office website.
Troyer said he expected Geauga County to have a hotel or motel where he could stay during construction, but he is currently commuting from his home in the Sugarcreek area.
The property qualified as a community reinvestment area pre-1994 zone, so the parcel owner could apply for tax abatement once the facility is complete, said Leslie Gambosi McCoy, Middlefield Village administrator.
Besides the ever-expanding Chem Tech facility, a 7.9-acre parcel on the south end of the Red Creek property was sold to Greenleaf Land Co. LLC in 2019 for nearly $3 million for construction of a marijuana production facility.
