Well, it's not a cave, but it does give one pause to think about how some of
the huge mining areas can be reused.
It is amazing the things we don't know that exist. So like it says at the
bottom I learned something new again today.
Subject: Underground City in the U.S.?
WOW, Never knew this existed…………..
More than 1,000 people spend their workdays in an industrial park housed
underground
in an excavated mine the size of 140 football fields.
As Bloomberg reports, the underground industrial park known as SubTroplis
opened for
business in 1964 in an excavated mine near Kansas City, Mo. attracting tenants
with the lure
of lower energy costs and cheap rents...
About 10 percent of Kansas City's commercial real estate is underground, says
Ora Reynolds,
the president of SubTropolis's landlord Hunt Midwest.
The company has made a cottage industry out of underground industrial space,
thanks to rock
formations near the Missouri River that allow trucks to drive into the old
mines instead of tenants
needing to use elevators to get things in and out.
New Age Industrial :
Subtropolis boasts 17-foot-high ceilings supported by rough-hewn columns. The
270-million-year-old limestone deposits
are six times stronger than concrete, according to Hunt Midwest's marketing
materials.
Subtropolis's cool climate helped attract cloud computing company LightEdge,
which has become the anchor tenant in
what Hunt Midwest hopes will develop into a major data center.
The U.S. Postal Service uses Subtropolis as a distribution hub for postage
stamps, and
storing hundreds of millions of stamps in the facility.
The US Postal Service rents more than 500,000 square feet at SubTropolis.
The National Archives and Records Association keeps old tax records and federal
court documents at the facility.
Pick a fight with the Internal Revenue Service and the paper trail may lead to
these shelves.
Vanguard Packaging prints retail packaging and supermarket displays in its
500,000-square-foot space.
Vanguard calls itself the most sustainable packaging company in North America.
Journey to the center of the earth—or at least, to EarthWorks, an educational
program
that educates students on the Midwest's natural habitats in a 32,000
square-foot space in
SubTropolis.
It's a great place for storing old film.
Some canisters in this archive hold the original film from 'Gone with the Wind'.
They store coffee there as well.
"I have no idea how many pounds of coffee I have down here," says Joe Paris,
vice president at Paris Brothers,
a specialty foods company. "I have thousands of bags. Some of them are 60 or 70
kilos."
SubTropolis is down the road from an assembly plant where Ford manufactures
F150 pickups.
This has attracted companies such as Knapheide, shown here, which manufactures
steel bodies
that get rigged onto those Ford trucks.
One tenant in SubTropolis's Automotive Alley is Ground Effects, which provides
a variety of conversion services.
How would you like to be a runner, winding through this underground city?
Road runners have been competing in 5-kilometer and 10k races inside
SubTropolis's
seven miles of roadways for the last 33 years.
This definitely qualifies under the old saying "you should learn something new
every day."
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