Master Chrome was just a small industry on a small lot. Its structure didn’t even measure 10,000 square feet. The land on which it set was barely more than half an acre.
But Master Chrome has been a massive headache for a lot of people. And charting a new, productive future for the environmentally contaminated site at 5709 Herman Ave. in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood is not over yet.
Demolition and clean-up required a disproportionately massive effort by a large team that extended across multiple departments at Cleveland City Hall, to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas at the Justice Center, and reached to the state capital as well as to various contractors statewide…