Great story - the reclamation of land. It is not unusual - possibly safer to do this as a park and rec area, rather than residential. Mind you, where I live in my district of Floridsdorf in Vienna, they built a large hospital on top of a former industrial site where toxic chemicals had leaked into the soil (a former railway area).
But similar also in the city where I lived in Canada: a railyard reclaimed (I actually worked there prior to it moving out of town) where among other stuff also creosote leaked into the ground - now there is a shopping center and also a health clinic on those grounds (the former station was rebuilt for the health clinic)!
Back to my story about the hospital in Vienna: they actually paid an esoteric consultant to "bless" the area by building a "energy ring" against negative energy.
This from the municipal government - the same government that now spearheads the fight against Corona with one of the most draconian measures of all of Europe!
From my more recent posts (quite a few are in German only) you might deduct that I had given up on the sanity of politicians. There is indeed a brain virus going around, and has for some time, it didn't start with Corona!
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Oh wow, that seems like not the best place to put sick people.
It's interesting how many health buildings are put on top of toxic waste. I guess they know enough to consider it not risky.
But you know how it is, in the end it is often a case of money/profit over human well being and safety.
It is a large area, it was either that or a residential complex. Lots of industrial land is reclaimed as industries are moved out of the city altogether. Having worked in Canada for a couple of decades in Lethbridge (railyards) I know what's in the soil, lol. Particularly in the area of the former roundhouse, but that is largely a shopping center now - ironically the almost exact spot is Kids R Us. The repurposed station for a health center is not that bad. Last thing that once happened there was a large derailment (also involved tank cars) just past where the building is - for which I was responsible, in a way, since I was the switch-foreman that night. Long story ......