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MISSOULA- A former Smurfit Stone worker has been tapped as the new project manager for the old Frenchtown mill site.

Green Investment Group, Inc., now known as M2Green Redevelopment has hired Patrick Clevenger, who has 35 years of experience as a materials and services manager, to head up the work taking place in Frenchtown.

Clevenger will be responsible seeing what manufacturing machinery left at the site can be reused as the redevelopment of the site continues. He'll be working with another former Smurfit Stone employee, Neal Marxer, who's also a project manager for the property.

Marxer has over 40 years of experience in the pulp and paper industry and has been working for Green Investment Group since the company purchased the site in May 2011.

Marxer's primary responsibilities include environmental matters, real estate, redevelopment activities and property tax matters according to a news release.

"Patrick will be a tremendous asset to us as we work to bring jobs and opportunities back to the site in Missoula. Together, Patrick and Neal create an unparalleled project-management team that will help us in furthering our development efforts and making sure we attract the right industries to the region.," Green Investment Group President Ray Stillwell said in a prepared statement.

Clevenger is a Missoula resident who has served the Missoula County United Way Board of Directors, the Missoula Food Bank Board of Directors, the Loyola Sacred Heart Foundation Board Member and BASH Chairman.

In addition to the 3,200-acre site west of Missoula,Green Investment Group owns properties in Alton, Ill., Circleville, Ohio and Carthage, Ind., in the United States, and Portage-du-Fort, Quebec; New Richmond, Quebec; and Bathurst, New Brunswick in Canada.