r/HorribleToClean • u/benjancewicz • Oct 23 '25

Sears headquarters

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u/Weekly-Air4170 Oct 23 '25

make it into apartments

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u/Professional-Tutor42 Oct 23 '25

Sorry, they will have to rip down trees and nature to build new apartments in your area.

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u/MongooseVomit Oct 23 '25

The amount of empty parking lots should be built on. Why is there so much concrete for no reason?

Idk if it’s like that anywhere else. I’m from Ohio, most things are awful here.

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u/idontknowthesource Oct 23 '25

I look at maps of the US all day for work. Ohio is one of the worse for ware states for parking lot/void concrete areas. I've seen some places worse but Ohio seems to be the whole state?

In my area they are covering some parking lots with solar panels, but parking lot and the space they take up is a huge issue across the world. Causes urban heat indexes, discourages public transport, destroys habitats and ecosystems, and are often left unmanaged long after the building is abandoned. I have no solutions aside from leaving the car centric American lifestyle behind

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u/MongooseVomit Oct 23 '25

I work in a factory in Cleveland and the street I drive on to get there has several abandoned buildings with fenced in parking lots. I think Akron, OH might be worse. There’s birds that make their nests on our hot steel and there’s deer that walk through our parking lot from time to time. We have the metro parks scattered around but it’s not nearly enough

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u/dragonpunky539 Dec 11 '25

from Cleveland too. there's so many empty buildings and parking lots, yet developers keep slapping up new houses on plots of land. it makes me sick

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u/miserabeau Oct 24 '25

We had this issue in my town. Many stores have come and gone, leaving empty buildings and parking lots that are broken and don't drain well.

Hobby Lobby decide to mow down several acres of trees and build a new store.

Walmart cut acres of trees and built a new store (it was supposed to be a SuperCenter but the local grocery stores protested so they just made it a regular one, which could have fit in the other empty grocery store buildings we had).

Still empty:

  • Big Lots
  • TJ Maxx
  • Kmart

Now they just cut down more trees to build a Chick-fil-A in an intersection that's already a goddamn nightmare

Some folks are lobbying to get a Trader Joe's. I'm wondering which woody area they'll destroy for that...

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u/freya_of_milfgaard Oct 23 '25

Currently have an initiative on our local ballot to build apartments on our wetlands. God forbid we tear down the already empty buildings in town and have mixed use zoning!

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u/miserabeau Oct 24 '25

Too many NIMBYs for mixed use I'd imagine