That is surprising and very contrary to the narrative I’ve been hearing. I’d heard that our steel production had dropped to trivial values after the Pittsburgh forges had gone under.
My town’s steel mill is overbooked and absolutely cleaning up financially. A casino moved in a few years ago, bought almost all the land around the mill, and wanted to buy them out for space to make the hotel bigger. The mill basically said, “You literally can’t pay us enough.”
So now we’ve got a steel mill in the middle of a casino’s parking lot.
That is surprising and very contrary to the narrative I’ve been hearing. I’d heard that our steel production had dropped to trivial values after the Pittsburgh forges had gone under.
My town’s steel mill is overbooked and absolutely cleaning up financially. A casino moved in a few years ago, bought almost all the land around the mill, and wanted to buy them out for space to make the hotel bigger. The mill basically said, “You literally can’t pay us enough.”
So now we’ve got a steel mill in the middle of a casino’s parking lot.
US iron ore mining, 1890-2014 (Wikipedia)
