ReCommunity Ohio to operate the Center of Resource Recovery and Recycling.
Orlando, Florida-based Team Gemini LLC, a sustainable project design and development company, has released an update on the progress of the Gemini Synergy Center at Grove City, Ohio, which the company describes as its flagship sustainable industrial park. The company says it broke ground on the project in December 2013 and has since cleared out the land and excavated the site as needed for foundations and a new entry road.
This project was awarded to Team Gemini in an RFP process by SWACO (Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio) more than one year ago. It is being constructed in two phases.
The first phase, known as the Center of Resource Recovery and Recycling (“COR3”), will be one of the largest recycling centers of its kind in the United States, Team Gemini says. Starting late next year, the project will begin the hiring process with its facility operator, ReCommunity Ohio LLC, estimating that more than 410 people will be needed to operate this facility.
Team Gemini broke ground last December on the new entry road for both the Franklin County Landfill and the COR3 facility. Although there have been numerous changes to the road design and weather delays, Team Gemini, its designers and contractors are actively working with SWACO to resolve and implement the changes needed to keep the new entry road portion of this project moving forward, according to the company.
“This is a very large and complex project that will bring prosperity and progress to Central Ohio,” says Doug Haughn, president of Team Gemini, “and there are many details, activities, contributors and events that must be orchestrated to keep the project moving forward smoothly.”
He adds, “Everyone involved in the project has been very supportive and valuable in helping make this project a reality, but in that process there are often misunderstandings or confusion on some of the finer details.”
Once completed in the summer of 2016, the COR3 is designed to recover more than 250,000 tons of recyclables from the waste stream that is currently being sent to the Franklin County landfill. This will extend the life of the landfill as well as produce additional income for SWACO, according to Team Gemini.
