[CPEO-BIF] O’Neill Manufacturing site, North Rome, Georgia

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Development authority looking to identify, improve brownfield sites in Rome and Floyd County

By John Bailey 
Rome News-Tribune (GA)
September 26, 2021

So overgrown it looks as if nature has completely taken it over, a former manufacturing site in North Rome has the potential to be reused and reborn. In the quest for property to bring business to Rome and Floyd County, nothing’s completely off the table.

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One of the most notable local brownfield sites is the former O’Neill Manufacturing location, a 7-acre tract off Anderson Street in North Rome.

The company treated and manufactured custom wood products until it closed in 2000 following the death of Sean O’Neill, its last chief executive officer.

The family-owned company was founded in 1878 in Atlanta and moved to its 102 Anderson St. address in Rome around the turn of that century.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/development-authority-looking-to-identify-improve-brownfield-sites-in-rome-and-floyd-county/article_f24a9f60-1bb9-11ec-b695-bf93ed44a23e.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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