Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

County board supports bank's Bessemer project

By RALPH ANSAMI

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BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday adopted a resolution in support of the Gogebic Range Bank’s plans to develop the former Body Shop property in the Bessemer Industrial Park into office space.

The Gogebic County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority received an application to develop the parcel that is considered “functionally obsolete.”

Rudy Grbavcich, chairman of the GCBRA, and Neil Beckman, representing the bank, discussed the plans with the county board on Wednesday.

Beckman said the taxable value of the parcel at 421 Indu...