Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

[deleted] t1_j7sbqqn wrote

I was thankful to get out of the York and Harrisburg area when I did. There are so many freaking warehouses. It's crazy. But population and industry growth that I saw in 15 years was way more than the area could handle. Every piece of farmland was being sold either for a warehouse or a development and the highways were not growing at all to accommodate it. I understand the need for jobs in certain areas, but when they put up a warehouse and all it does is cause people to move to the area, it may not actually do much to help those already living there.

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Sunkitteh t1_j7savlh wrote

From Lehigh Valley, now live in Kutztown. I think warehouse construction is a bubble ready to pop. Too bad Dutch Springs lost the waterpark and open scuba to warehouse development, but glad Stu made 16 million plus off the sale.

Kutztown is insulated where the farms are owned by Mennonites. That's their family trust fund, wrapped up in tradition. They aren't selling.

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drxdrg08 t1_j7s0kka wrote

> I want them to build as many warehouses as they can in the old industrial parts of Philadelphia near the highways.

Honestly, I don't think they can get enough people hired from the surrounding neighborhoods that would reliably show up for work real early in the morning and not high.

And that's in addition to all the other usual "problems", like the cost to put up a warehouse using city union labor is significantly more expensive.

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