Actually, thinking about this has reminded me of the story of Captain Streeter, a Great Lakes steamboat captain who ran his ship aground on a sandbar near Chicago in the 1800s. He couldn’t do anything about it at that time, so he decided to leave the ship there and used it to conduct business that was illegal in the Chicago city limits, like gambling and serving liquor on Sundays.
Eventually, he got people to dump the debris from the Chicago fire on his sandbar and backfilled the lake all the way to the shore, creating the neighborhood called Streeterville.
That’s making lemonade out of lemons.