Posted on 01/09/2003 10:01:57 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:12:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The company I once worked for inherited a dock and grounds across from LTV on the Cuyahoga. With the gentrification of Flats area of the River, the home office wondered why we couldn't have a sail boat marina up river on this property.That's very possible since John D. Rockefeller was from here and started out here. But it may have also been an old industrial site. Used oil dumping used to be a commonplace thing.
I think the property might have been the site of one of North America's first oil refineries...it had more or less continuous seepage.
The area around LTV is quite a bit upriver from the entertainment district part of the Flats. Between the noise and smells and the need to contend with barges coming upriver (Cuyahoga means "crooked" in the Algonquin Indian language), I doubt it would have been all that successful.
-Eric
I assume that they were helped somewhat by the tariffs?
Nice to see some necessary consolidation going on. Hopefully, USS will winnow out some of the fat in National.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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