Winters in Greater Chicago can bring a variety of weather, from light snow to heavy snow and ice.
Managing ice buildup and snowfall on your commercial property is crucial, whether you run a school, industrial site, healthcare facility, retail center, office park, or homeowners’ association. Maintaining a tidy appearance and ensuring safety are top priorities.
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Managing stormwater presents a significant challenge for Greater Chicago's commercial properties each year.
This involves handling stormwater drainage and regularly maintaining detention ponds. Proper detention pond maintenance is crucial to prevent safety hazards, such as flooded parking areas, wet walkways, and soggy turf, and more severe issues like erosion.
For industrial properties in Greater Chicago with extensive hard surfaces, stormwater cannot infiltrate the concrete and must instead flow to lower areas.
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We might not be able to read your mind, but we bet if we looked at your Greater Chicago commercial property wishlist, dealing with water issues is likely a top priority.
A flooded parking lot at an industrial facility, office park, retail property, healthcare site, or school does more than cause soggy feet. It can negatively affect local water quality, cause erosion, chase away customers and give the entire property a bad name.
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In the Greater Chicago area, there’s a big difference between your commercial landscape in the bright, warm summer months and your commercial landscape during those bitter, cold winter months covered in snow and ice.
As your landscape goes through these cycles, it experiences quite a bit: a surge of growth, warm, dry days, transitions, freezes and thaws, and dormancy.
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While Greater Chicago industrial property managers may be focusing on getting their work done indoors, maintaining outdoor areas is important to the bottom line, too.
In fact, neglecting your industrial property landscaping can lead to problems outdoors that can increase repair costs, as well as renovation expenses.
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Winters in the Greater Chicago area can certainly bring a wide variety of conditions. One day, you’ll get a dusting of snow, and the next you get many feet of snow with a thick sheet of ice beneath.
That’s why managing the snowfall and ice buildup on your commercial grounds is a big priority on your facility management to-do list.
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