Modern Style in an Old-fashioned Building

Surface Tech modernizes 85-year-old concrete floors with a grind and polish finish.

Aug 13, 2013

Read the full story about how Surface Tech completed the concrete polishing at Blue Line Station in the article "Modern Style in an Old-fashioned Building."

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