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An almost 800,000-square-foot property remains up for sale, more than a decade after the last employee left. The Crescent Center is located off Woodruff Road, by Carolina Pointe Parkway. Behind the Whole Food Market and REI, the former fiber plant is now half-standing, midway through a demolition project. Store owners and employees in the area have high hopes for what they want the area to become once demolition is complete. "We have a lot of franchises on Woodruff Road, and I think it'd be nice to see more local businesses in the area," Bethaney Allison, a chiropractor at The Joint, said. "It'll be nice when whatever they want to do with it is completed." Simply Massage owner Tony South said he remembers when the fiber plant was still standing. "As long as we've been here, its been empty, so we've always wanted to see some sort of development there," South said. "I am really hoping any development that comes will have a traffic plan in place and be able to handle and manage the traffic that does come as a result of the development." According to the city of Greenville, the economic development staff and building permit office said they are not aware of any plans or permits other than the demolition. The Realtor for the Crescent Center, Greg Haynes of CBRE, confirmed that the owners are still the Ringgold Partners of Atlanta. Haynes said he couldn't say much about the location but said demolition had been in its plans for "a while." The South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control said the current owners filed for a demolition permit and recently did environmental sampling adjacent to an old concrete slab on site. Jeff Taillon of DHEC said that the concrete slab is removed, the owner has been advised that additional sampling will need to be conducted in that area under the non-responsible party Brownfields program. It comes about three years after the land tested positive for ethylene glycol and chlorobenzene in three remaining areas. If ingested in large enough amounts, the chemicals can cause liver and kidney damage. In a WYFF 4 Investigates story, state health officials said the site has been through many phases of cleanup over the last several years. The fiber industries plant that operated until the late 1980s left a mixture of chemicals buried in the ground. New owners of the property will be required to clean it up. While this is not uncommon, demolition and soil testing adds extra factors and costs for the owners. Jon Wilken, an owner and partner in Point Development, which owns the land surrounding the Crescent Center, said there are plans to build two hotels in the area. Each time they plan or build, the EPA tests the land. Wilken said they have never had a problem with the land. WYFF News 4 attempted to contact the Ringgold Partners but was unable to reach them.