SERVPRO Expertly Restores Brockton Businesses After Disaster Strikes

1/7/2021 (Permalink)

From Brockton City Hall to the local fish market---SERVPRO can provide flood damage mitigation

Local Entrepreneurs in Brockton Can Call SERVPRO of Metro Brockton at (508) 690-4690

Brockton, Massachusetts, also known as the “City of Champions” for its wealth of successful athletic talent, is home to over 95,000 residents as of 2019. Brockton can also be considered America’s second-windiest city due to its average wind speed exceeding 14 miles per hour.

Brockton’s climate is temperate, with warm summers, wet winters, and plenty of cloudy days in between. Average temperatures in summer and winter range from 84 degrees Fahrenheit to 21 degrees—with both warm and cold seasons lasting about three months each. Tourism is most recommended from early summer to fall for the most enjoyable weather. Temperatures rarely exceeded the mid-90s or went below 6 degrees during the winter months, making the climate amenable to experiencing all four seasons.

Things to do in Brockton

Activities and locales that make Brockton worth a visit include the Fuller Craft Museum, the Brockton Fire Museum, Campanelli Stadium, and Champions Park’s Rocky Marciano Statue. Fans of baseball, hockey, and boxing alike are sure to get much out of this city’s rich sports history and culture.

Notable people from Brockton include:

• Professional baseball player Steve Balboni
• Pro golfer Megan Khang
• New York Islanders coach and hockey player Scott Gordon
• Marine biologist George Wilton Field
• Writer Herbert Warren Wind

Rocky Marciano: Brockton’s Undefeated Champion

Brockton’s “City of Champions” moniker is not without merit. Much of that can be attributed to heavyweight boxing legend Rocky Marciano, the world champion in his weight class from 1952 to 1956. He retired with an immaculate 49-0 record. This record is awe-inspiring because, to this day, Marciano is still the only undefeated heavyweight champion in boxing history. He was active from 1947 to 1955 and was noteworthy for his strength, stamina, and endurance. To this day, Marciano is considered one of the greatest boxers ever to enter the ring.

Marciano defended his title successfully against such distinguished opponents as:

• Former heavyweight champion Jersey Joe Walcott
• Ezzard Charles
• Roland La Starza
• Don Cockell
• Archie Moore

Even more astonishing was Marciano’s consistent knockout-to-win ratio, which sits at almost 88 percent. When applied to heavyweight title fights, Marciano’s knockout ratio is still the highest in that category at nearly 86 percent.

Rocky Marciano’s heavyweight career started with a victory against Harry Bilzerian. It would take several more bouts that ended in knockout victories before one boxer, Don Mogard, could last a full ten rounds against this formidable sportsman. Other notable bouts included such names as Phil Muscato and Ted Lowry.

The closest Marciano ever came to defeat was against Roland La Starza, another undefeated boxer. The win was eventually decided by a split decision combined with a point system that tipped the scales just barely in Marciano’s favor. He would fight La Starza again in 1953 during one of his six heavyweight title bouts, winning after an 11th-round technical knockout.

Promising Growth and Development Projects in Brockton

As real estate in the Greater Boston Area experiences a new boom, buyers have rekindled their interest in developing land in Brockton. One particularly promising project, spearheaded by planning and economic development director Rob May, involves a local rail yard that has gone unused for years.

The ambitious development project, unveiled in 2019, seeks to do the following with this idyllic 31-acre plot of land near Parker Street:

• The addition of a linear part connecting residential areas to a new police headquarters and a commercial plaza
• Constructing between 25 to 35 new single-family residences near a new park beside Trout Brook
• Between 100 and 225 new multifamily units near the commuter railway on the opposite end of the neighborhood

This development is expected to impact over 60 acres of land in the area, including the vacant railyard, with almost four dozen parcels split between over two dozen property owners. A more formal proposal for CSX regarding the downtown railyard was introduced in February 2020.

Other plans for the Trout Brook area include a conservation commission proposal to clean up the waters to remove pollution and debris and create a scenic riverwalk. This effort strives to preserve local flora while ensuring that clean, safe water flows through the area.

Can SERVPRO Restore Commercial Documents Affected by Flooding?

SERVPRO technicians undergo Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) training in the use of EPA-registered and OSHA-approved products to mitigate commercial flood damage that can impact Brockton businesses. This extensive training ensures that local companies receive fast-responding cleanup to code while adhering to restoration industry benchmarks for clean and safe conditions.

The drying process for businesses, especially after a ground or flash flood, is a process that takes a variety of factors into account, including:

• The presence of floodwater contaminants that require cleanup before drying can begin
• The relative and specific humidity of affected rooms and surfaces, respectively
• Which items are restorable and which require disposal with the consent of business owners and insurance adjusters

Documents crucial to your business can also be moved offsite during a pack out and preserved as needed. Depending on the extent of the damage, salvaging is not always feasible, especially in a flood damage situation. If a situation arises where a flood-damaged document cannot be physically preserved. In that case, SERVPRO techs can scan a digital copy and place it in cloud storage for business owners. Restorable documents affected by water are typically dried through sublimation to minimize warping, spreading ink, and additional damages.

It is highly recommended that business owners maintain additional copies of essential documents in a secure, offsite location in anticipation of disasters that can impact commercial assets.

SERVPRO of Metro Brockton is ready to serve with Faster To Any Size Disaster cleanup, mitigation, and restoration. Businesses in need of emergency-response damage removal can call (508) 690-4690 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including all holidays.