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One the properties I used to drive past regularly was an old gas station from the 1950s.
It was in a good location for a grocery store to replace it. Of course bulldozing an old gas station was easy. BUT, the gas tanks had been leaking into the ground for years. They had to dig an enormous hole. It looked like a new mine for coal or gold, but it was just soil, they had to haul out, have it run through an giant incinerator to burn off all the petroleum compounds, and then haul it all back to go into the hole. No doubt is was millions of dollars. I have no idea who paid for it, the seller or the buyer. The grocery store went bankrupt a few years later, and now it is walled off into a strip shopping center with several businesses there.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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