Well the story goes after Dun & Bradstreet vacated the building it's stood vacant for close to a decade in that time homeless people and such started Living in it so it was graffiti doll up add to the fact that there was a local guy who decided to scrap all the copper and piping in the building at that point because of the nature of the old style building it had outbuildings that took care of the heating and the hot water and the air conditioning that were all attached by those pipes and when the guy scrap the stuff out he basically made the building a trash Heap because up to that point if all the plumbing was still intact a developer could have updated it all the solar but because of the massive amounts of damage to the inside of the building it was decided to scrap it Bethlehem Steel no longer exists it is just a legal entity that holds its liabilities such as pensions and real estate holdings if you have a skyscraper in your town a very very long Bridge a railroad bridge or if you're at a port chances are there's some Bethlehem Steel Within two feet of you also back in the day Bethlehem was home of Beth Lyon togs and they were the largest manufacturer of textiles in America before NAFTA
Re: end of an era
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