So near me they want to do a development called the Crystal Lagoons. It's like, an artificial lagoon area with shops and apartments and all that luxury buzzword jazz around it. Capitalistic, sure, but not inherently dumb. Except:
- It's located in Melbourne, Florida. 10 minutes of driving from it's proposed location will get you to an actual, real beach. Not a shitty one, either, it's nice, trust me.
- Speaking of that location, it's a former landfill! That's right. Putting something full of water on top of an old landfill, I'm sure nothing will ever go wrong there. Huh, "seepage"? whats that?
- And what's around that old landfill? Aerospace defense contractors! It's wedged inbetween corporate buildings for Thales, Rockwell-Collins, L3Harris, and Northrop Grumman. Fun for all the family.
- ITS SURROUNDED BY FUCKING SUPERFUND SITES. There's 4 in the immediate area, two labelled as "sludge sites", and 1 is the Rockwell-Collins facility right next door! They're archived as "NFRAP" which amounts to "not gonna kill everyone but that doesn't mean they're not toxic, here it's the state's responsibility. Because local government information is all stored on a DOS machine in a flooded basement, I haven't been able to unearth what these places actually were contaminated with, but just let your mind ruminate on what a space-race era "sludge site" might contain.
Anyway, this hasn't broken ground yet, so I have about a 50/50 bet they're gonna take a soil sample and scare away all their investors like frightened birds. But who knows, they keep trying to make this place into a touristier city to try and steal Orlando's lunch.