cfherrman
Senior Member
Idk I'm in Kansas, the only times it's over 3 (maybe 4) days is if USPS touches it
They built a big one in pa right beside 81 at the md line finished it last summer sometime. Still had the for least signs up and not a soul around the place.Amazon has built stocking warehouses all over the country for their cheap products.
I can think of 3 within a 10 mile drive of me, huge tiltups with 500,000 sf or more.
The irony is the one closest to me is near Fredrickson, port of Tacoma. It is a remote extension of the port with plenty of rail, and yet they did not build in Fredrickson proper and have no rail. It is still all truck.
I'm thrilled you see UPS and Fedex on the rails. I'm a huge fan of railroads.
I hope they can move more and more to rails rather than less.
I wander if that's not what happened there tooAmazon built a large facility about 35 minutes North of my place about 2018ish. Busy, busy place. 2020 came, they got so busy, they built a second facility about ½ mile North of 1st facility. By the time they got it finished, they had optimized their other facility and demand had shrank back that they've never used it. Parking lot is empty, truck gates have weeds growing up in the cracks already. Only vehicle you see in their lot is the security guard they pay to keep the homeless and riff raff away.
But never put back to the valuable farmland from whence it was....That is how it always seems with commercial real estate. Company builds or gets landlord to build huge palace. Plans change and it sits vacant for years. Eventually gets sold and used by somebody else not for original purpose.
I see that around here and it pisses me purple. I take comfort in knowing that mother nature will claim even the concrete in 1000 years after we end our stupidity.But never put back to the valuable farmland from whence it was....
Terd Ticket,
What they are paving around here was prime veggies and fruit land. Truck farming so now we are back on topic.Issue is--we produce more than needed-especially when it comes to grain.
I would feel different if--40% wasn't thrown away at stores. The waste and culling isWhat they are paving around here was prime veggies and fruit land
I remember it as {We've run aground, and are leaking some oil}Captain of the Valdez--{we seem to have fetched up hard on the rocks}.
Mine was I believe a sarcastic line from SNL. But yours is not correct either.I remember it as {We've run aground, and are leaking some oil}
My Dad brought home what he didnt sell and throw it over the fence by the drive . I got to looking one day and there was all kinds of stuff growing out there. Its unreal how much food is tossed out by stores .I would feel different if--40% wasn't thrown away at stores. The waste and culling is
ridiculous