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Originally Posted by Changing City
It's the most obvious explanation. With a few well-known exceptions Downtown, most long-term vacant sites are former gas station locations. There was an article about it over a decade ago, and nothing much has changed (and some of the sites are still vacant!)
Patrick Johnson wrote a detailed explanation in 2013 of why some sites can be developed relatively quickly, and other take years, or decades. The era that the station was built partly explains the differences. If it was originally a single walled tank, there will almost certainly be deep deposits of hydrocarbons, even if the tank was replaced. Sometimes developers discover there had been a much earlier gas tank that had been decommissioned, and a different use had replaced it. Qualex Landmark sought compensation for a site in Dunbar that had seen the gas station removed years earlier. |
Some former stations don’t even start remediation for many years after closing, like the one on Broadway. I don’t think anything has happened in 5 years
Also, I thought that you could truck the contaminated soil to a place in Alberta and the cost is around 100,000 for a typical site. So seems crazy to let a site sit for decades. Too bad the province doesn’t have something to help expedite it
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