That's the site of the original Tour de France.

When the news becomes the news.

Sure. To me, I would never live on land that was once industrial (specifically chemical or toxic) or used as a garbage dump. Somewhere down the line in homeownership, basements seep water, pipes leach, sewage backs up, and old crap from yesteryear comes back to haunt you. I don't trust anyone from the 80s, 90s, or today truly knows how to remediate everything and I want nothing to do with land like that. Like I said, commercial purposes is fine, but I would never want it for housing. At the very least, transparency is key. Disclosing the land's history to perspective buyers is important for their peace of mind.

>I just like to know where someone is coming from when they say things.

I'm coming from a guy who grew up in the 80s/90s in an area that was near questionable land use. I'm coming from a place where people all around our area were getting sick and wondering why the lot by my old development never grew anything despite being surrounded by woods (spoiler: it used to be a junk yard.) I'm now scratching my head as to how my mom got the kind of cancer she has now. I think it's unfortunate but the polluted land we used for industrial crap needs a lot of time to heal. There's no easy solution, but in any case, I do my homework and will never live in such a place.

That's great man. You're welcome to live there if you want.

I'm cool with most commercial and recreational projects being built on brownfields, but I strongly question any dwellings. Down the way, by where I used to live in Somerville, they also built apartments called Parc View (or something like that) on an old EPA site that used to manufacture airplanes for WWII. When we bought our house near this site, we had the ground tested to be sure.

Where I used to live in Marlboro, another such site (and much bigger) known as Burnt Fly Bog was extremely contaminated, with reports of cancer and other ailments coming from residents of near that site. I wouldn't be surprised to hear in 20-40 years, hearing of an uptick of cancer from select apartments built on or near these sites.

..and this apartment complex in Somerville.

That's awesome! Is that fact still true?

Here's a link to the post.

Edit: here's an updated edit.

Yup. Years ago I posted one of my photos /r/NYC and it got me in Time Magazine, which was so amazing for my photo career.... now I was banned for a month for posting (what I feel) was similar content. That sub has gotten pretty harsh.

Edit: unrelated. The Reddit admins permabanned my account for no reason. If there is a reason they won't tell me. If you see this and want to vouch for me, please help. I have no recourse but can somehow edit old comments. I'm on Instagram and Twitter @jimmykastner if you want to reach out.

Maybe. Maybe writing and the Internet will be reinvented several times over in the next 4 billion years.

I'm sure by then, if we survive as a species, English and even Ancient Greek writing and nomenclature will be a long forgotten relic. There will be fragments of myths that recall long lost myths of this era.

Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb

Edit: Why not.

I find the concept of hidden gems getting publicly identified on the Internet hilarious and sad.

Earthworm Klum

Sure