The Rote Company:

This property is located at 1224 5^th Avenue in Rock Island. It is now a vacant property that is high on the city’s list of brown field sites that are ripe for redevelopment. While there are no underground tanks to worry about at this site, it is the location of a former machine shop, circa 1948, and because of this, there is worry that chemicals left over from this machine shop remain on the premises and are contaminating the soils. Since 1948, it has housed two other businesses, continuing machine manufacturing (1976-86) and then TV repair in 1996. Presently, the site is in the market for redevelopment