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Energy. Environment. Economy.

“Fracking in Ohio Sparks Real Estate Rebound”

Natural gas drilling in both the Marcellus and Utica Shales has increased the demand for commercial property.


The clamor of bulldozers on a patch of former farmland in rural Carroll County, Ohio makes Glenn Enslen, the county’s economic development director, feel “like an eight-year-old kid on Christmas morning,” he said. The 330-acre tract of Appalachian property is being transformed into an industrial park. The first tenant will be MRC Global Inc., a Houston-based pipe and valve supplier that will serve Ohio’s emerging oil and natural-gas industry.

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