It didn’t take long for Gadfly’s snarky to come back!
And Clairton has a coke works.
They still make coke?
Yeah.
I didn’t know they still made coke.
Yeah.
That’s somethin’.
We used to have a coke works here.
Yeah?
Yeah.
And now we’re goin’ to have a water park.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Just what every town needs.
Just what every town needs.
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Wind Creek has been quoted as saying they see a water park in the old #2 Machine Shop as helping create the “the No. 1 resort destination in the Northeast.”
Irony you could taste flowed at the end of this above fragment of overheard conversation.
Gadfly must admit — despite Anna’s caution — that a huge indoor water park gives him the night sweats.
Gadfly has already shuddered publicly in a daytime post at the image of the Southside as a community of “Stacks, Steeples, and (Water) Slides.”
Can’t they find a use for #2 Machine shop that blends with the town’s history and character?
Or has the presence of the Casino changed everything?
A design that blends.
Gadfly’s been thinking about that verb a lot lately.
Kim Carrell-Smith planted it in his consciousness in a post a while back.
More on blended development soon.
People traveling huge distances to a ‘destination attraction’ is totally out of keeping with sustainability & responsible action in the face of global warming & the climate crises. Wind Creek should do as you suggest and find more appropriate use(s).