WORCESTER, Mass. - A massive demolition project leveling part of Saint-Gobain’s former manufacturing campus in Worcester’s Greendale neighborhood is nearly complete.

The Worcester Business Development Corporation is roughly a year and a half into the massive 50-acre demolition project.

Roberta Brien, executive vice president of the WBDC, said the first 30 acres of the demolition are now ready for development.

“About one million square feet have been abated and demolished to prepare the site for advanced manufacturing,” Roberta Brien said. “Probably 96 to 98 percent of our demolition has gone out by rail to various sites.”

Crews are working to clean up a few remaining piles of debris, and Brien said transporting it by rail has been very helpful.

“Probably 96 to 98 percent of our demolition has gone out by rail to various sites, construction debris, material, bricks,” Roberta Brien said. “That has really allowed us to be quick and speedy with our demolition and preparing of these sites.”

The next phase over the coming months will include constructing a public road through the site.

The end goal is to build a modern advanced manufacturing area with several large buildings, a project which will be called ‘GreenTech Park’.

“We are ready for advanced manufacturing, we are ready to create jobs, we’re ready to bring additional taxes to the City of Worcester,” Roberta Brien said. “We still have a quadrant up on West Boylston Street and we are looking seriously at renovating some of those buildings, in particular because of their proximity to the rail.”

Brien and the WBDC believe the benefits of opening up this land to new businesses will be felt by the entire community.

“They can work and live in the same community and have a very easy commute to their job and live in a neighborhood that supports businesses and residents,” Roberta Brien said. “It would mean so much to us.”

Spectrum News 1 first got an inside look at the demolition in May 2024.