Personally, I think they should have gone with the abattoir.
A lot.
But societies which do these sort of things are the ones moving up, put intended.
There was a time where we in the US built the tallest buildings, and it corresponded to when we were reaching into space, going into the deepest trenches of the Pacific, building the fastest biggest and most luxurious cars, building ever bigger airplanes, building ever bigger homes, raising the bar for what is expected (AC, high quality tap water, drinking fountains everywhere)...
Societies that build up like this, also Dubai, Taiwan, China, are generally societies that are also on the accent in other aspects as well.
But that’s just my personal observation.