(Photos courtesy Nucor)
As reported here Tuesday, West Seattle’s Nucor Steel mill by the west end of the bridge is dismantling three smokestacks that were decommissioned 40 years ago but have remained in place … until now. The company has shared some images of the early work, including drone views (above and below):
And a ground view too:
Nucor says the disassembly will take about five weeks – no explosives involved, just piece by piece – and the steel will be recycled on site.
Is nucor being impacted by the light rail plans? It’d be nice for that property to be repurposed for housing/retail/small business.
You mean the mill that’s been producing for more than 100 years? You want to get rid of the historic and productive mill that contributes to the community, employees hundreds, and produces it’s products entirely our of scrap while also limiting particulate and carbon emissions so that they fall well under mandated guidelines? And for what…housing and some small shops. What do you thing holds up those new buildings you would want to have built? What holds up the bridges and buildings that we build? Roads? retaining walls, in our slide prone regions? This is short sighted.
Did you know it’s a flourishing local steel mill located in a historically zoned heavy industrial area? That employs hundreds and contributes to the community? Are you wanting to gentrify it?
Are you taking about the hydro powered steel mill that makes new rebar almost completely out of recycled materials?no….thankfully
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