In this video, you will see what happens when
you build on garbage.
City of Garfield Heights, architects, engineers,
and developers were all excited to build Ohio's
first major retail development called City
View Center.
This big box strip center was going to be
built on a 40 year old garbage dump landfill
that some sources claim may be toxic.
There is also some documented history of a
cluster of unusual cancers downhill from this
garbage dump landfill.
Surrounding homeowners were also happy that
decade's horrendous nasty garbage dump odors
and from some internet sources nose bleeds
were finally going to end.
.
Developers bought or acquired this 100 acre
property that contained 20 million tons of
garbage.
Everybody was chanting, if you build it, they
would come.
According to internet sources, in 2001, the
City View Center was approved for building
on a landfill and, the developer was allowed
to keep the garbage waste on site.
The developer was permitted to create a large
mound 1100 feet long, 400 feet wide, and 60
feet high.
This may be the same large mound that that
you can witness orange toxic liquid oozing
spilling over the concrete curbs onto the
asphalt pavements after rainfalls.
If you to step in this, you can bring some
orange liquid ooze home with you on your shoes
and on your car floor mats.
In 2005, I visit this garbage dump.
During the "If You Build It Stage" . The contactors
were preparing the unstable soil for future
construction.
When I returned the borrowed hard hat to the
construction site office trailer, I asked
one of the workers what they were going to
do when the new parking lot started to crack
and settle.
The answer was "We are going to make so much
money here that we will just keep laying down
new asphalt".
I never did ask my second question about what
was going to happen to the older Garfield
Heights strip center mall that was only a
couple of miles away.
So soon after, they built a 491,000 square
foot shopping strip center, and "they did
come".
Big box stores like Bed, Bath & Behind, Circuit
City, A.J. Wright, Office Max, Dick's Sporting
Goods, Pet Smart, Giant Eagle, Walmart, and
many more started opening doors for business.
It was a dream comes true.
This Fairy Tale starts to get a bit stinky.
Within the first year, the parking lots started
to settle and Walmart evacuated due to supposed
methane leaks.
Additionally, the EPA started to put the pressure
on about the methane gas emission in sewers.
Ultimately, Walmart was the first to close
its doors just before the 2008 December holiday
season.
It was alleged that Walmart closed the doors
due to garbage dump odor, methane gas, and
unsafe building conditions.
However, if you do some internet research,
Walmart had a store near Bedford which was
east of City View Center, and had another
store at the Steelyard Commons which was west
of City View Center.
That would make three Walmart stores within
a drones view.
Additionally, it is odd, is that one of these
stores was located near a fenced in former
radioactive Harshaw Chemical Plant that closed
in 1959.
The 1500 people from the Manhattan project
worked at this plant refining uranium 235
which has a half-life of 700 million years.
This Uranium 235 was used for building atomic
bombs during World War II.
I wonder what ever happened to those 1500
people.
It is common knowledge that nationally Walmart
has a store within 15 minutes of every American,
not to mention Walmart takes 8 cents out of
every American dollar spent.
In Cleveland, you had three Wal-Marts within
15 minutes.
So maybe Walmart overbuilt just a bit.
After Walmart moved out, the City View complex
slowly emptied out and now during the winter
of 2014 the shopping center plaza looks like
a ghost town with exception of a few retailers.
I made a version of this video back in 2008
before the massive evacuations, before the
real-estate bubble crash, and even before
the 2008 recession.
I remember Rich Man #1 calling me and asking
me too kindly to remove the video, so I kindly
removed my video.
According to the internet and other sources,
Rich Man #1 sold the garaged dump to Rich
Man #2 for a cool 100 million.
We all know how this ends.
The Rich man #2 quit paying his 80 million
dollar loan and now this ghost town went into
receivership several years back.
So now, we have lonely empty buildings, sinking
parking lots, periodic odor, and oozing orange
gue.
I am quiet sure that in the future, Rich Man
#3 will save the day by building more access
roads and buying this development for a song
and dance.
Rich Man #3 will probably get tax breaks and
play this whole gig over again.
Instead of letting FEMA, Homeland Security,
and our new police state snatch up the homeless
and send them to one of the 700 USA FEMA camps,
let's turn the Garbage Heights Ghost town
City View into a Sustainable City Homeless
view.
Let's give this complex to the homeless.
The homeless can generate their own power
with the garbage dump's methane release.
They can collect rain water from the rooftops
and parking lots.
They can pump their sewerage to the top of
the garbage dump mound, so the waste water
can percolate and filter through the 20 million
plus ton Garbage Mountain and create even
more methane.
Additionally, the homeless can farm and graze
on the undeveloped land.
Finally, if FEMA really wants to help, they
can come and install their barb wired fences.
At least now, if the homeless own their own
faculty, they won't be afraid to take a shower.
