Is that building still there with the power on? If so, you NEED to tell the authorities; if it were to collapse due to the foundation, wires will get ripped, sparks will fly... and kaboom. Besides which, it's a waste of power.
Let's boycott the self-checkouts! Last time I was there every SINGLE register was closed, except those damned things! I went to the cigarette isle and waited until I got rang up (and didn't buy any smokes, either!)
I went to a Walmart in PA on a slow day and every register had a cashier. All self checkout lanes were working. I come home to NJ and the local wally has 1 cashier and maybe 3 semi functional self checkouts.
FYI - methane is an odorless gas. You could easily walk in and never leave. And the pet store had no air flow, enabling mold growth. Consider yourself lucky to have walked away.
I’ll give you one up. Love Canal, NY (outside of Buffalo). It was built on waste from factories that they dumped into a man made lake, then filled the lake in, THEN built houses on it. It has a fence around the worst of the neighborhoods that no one can go into (except vandals who care to I guess)
Read more on Love Canal, NY. Dupont is the parent company of Hooker who filled the abandoned canal with dioxin. They then sold the land deed for $1 to the board of education. At that point the neighborhood was developed. Read up on Lois Gibbs.
I’m honestly shocked at how many abandoned buildings still have power. There’s some Ames urbex videos I’ve seen where some of the lights are still on...and they went completely under in 2002! Is there still someone paying the bills after all this time, or is the power company just too lazy to disconnect them?
Nathan2055 if you disconnect it the copper thieves will come running to strip every ounce of the copper out of the building down to the wiring in the sockets to sell for scrap. Now before you accuse someone of being lazy.... check a mirror.
My dad hauled garbage and as a kid I would occasionally go to work with him, including to this dump in the early 70's. I can't believe people were stupid enough to try to build on hundreds of feet deep garbage. The toxic chemicals alone must be a nightmare.
Must be incredible and for this incident can only ask if anyone learned lessons from the Love Canal incident and can only wonder about. Which now can Google it up really a tragedy.
The average individual knows building on a landfill wasn't a wise idea... shame on the individuals responsible for this mess...all for a few quick dollars... where was the EPA...when this was developed?
It's amazing that anyone built there without first obtaining an engineering report from a reputable firm that would document gas permeation from the soil, as well as soil stability. It looks like the developers really didn't want to know. Just pocket the development money and run. And the city officials? They just wanted another tax base for additional revenue.
MrShobar You’re right! How were the developers even permitted to build? When building on a previous landfill, there are a multitude of additional inspections that MUST take place. It is very apparent that this did not take place. These developers and city officials should be criminally charged
Not surprised-here in Boston MA, the UMASS Boston Campus was built on top of an old dump (1970s); they had to install a vent system to disperse the methane gas. The whole thing provoked a major scandal-several state officials were convicted and sent to jail. Corrupt politicians are always the cause of this, along with a well-entrenched political machine.
MrShobar I was going to comment this exact thing!! How on earth did they approve building this thing on top of a dump??!! How stupid do you have to be to think this was a good idea?!
Wouldn't matter GREEN POWER! People will do anything just for the money today too hell with tomorrow, after all an engineer doesn't have to shop in Wal-Mart! How would you tell your boss HE/SHE is wrong?
I'm still befuddled at Garfield Heights' plans to relocate the city jail *to the abandoned PetSmart* ... the mayor has to be totally oblivious to how dangerous that area is. Forget the methane and vinyl chlorine... you want to put your city at risk to liabilities for placing inmates in a building where the land around it is sinking and settling? Absolutely foolish and a preventable disaster in the making.
Marty Moose Probably because the total cost for building the shopping center totalled $1B? But signs of doom began when Home Depot had their own independent inspectors look at the land, and they discovered what the developers and Ohio EPA were trying to hide.
Nathan Obral They could leave the site for 5-10 years and see if theres any further sinkage, the sinkage may have already stopped and what was shown happened in the first few years. Landfill sites are such a horrible and wasteful use of land, what should you do with such sites? Giving it over to nature is one option I guess.
Actually, Wal-Mart has been known for abandoning buildings and opening locations just miles away from the original. Of course leaving the first building to decay and eventually the city is forced to tear it down for safety reasons.
My town is on it's third Wal-Mart building, all within a half mile of each other. Though, in our case, both of the old buildings were eventually reused, the first as a Value City and the second as a Burlington.
They are also known for promising a bunch of stuff like environmental remediation projects and things to towns that give them tax incentives for moving there then once they are up and running just “forget” about it
Rural King out of Columbus Ohio likes to buy old Walmart stores for their own....that happened 6 miles down the road, and a quarter mile further is a new Walmart Supercenter...
17:18 Dude you need to wear a respirator or something, these videos aren't worth your health. That mold (which was everywhere in PetSmart) is a serious indicator that the air isn't acceptable for breathing. Keep safe brother.
I bet the women's restroom still has power and a fresh lemon scented just-cleaned-by-someone-who-knows how aroma. Women's bathrooms are home to arcane and ancient technology.
@@mathewhex7045 The massive toxic farts and shits from the Women of Walmart definitely destroyed any of the advanced good-smelling technology inside there. Guarantee it.
3 rules that every urban explorer should follow. 1. No matter where you go always wear a protective mask 2. Never explore an empty space by yourself. And 3. If you hear any crying, sobs, or whispering. Stop where you are and leave the area immediately.
There is alot of mold that contains Methane in that petsmart. Vandalizers could instantly get respiratory failures and alot of times death. Jake is lucky since he survived.
This is an insane story. I had never heard about this before. Side note: I love how you never comment on the insane and gross stuff written in graffiti in a lot of these places. I don’t know why, but it always makes me giggle to see something totally bizarre on the wall while you give thorough historical information.
The mad thing is that the vandals are clever enough to read and write. Many similar vandals in Ireland would always make basic spelling mistakes or squiggles or indecipherable symbols, the meaning of which is only known to fellow gang members and their associates. The lettering and spelling in these spray messages is of a tolerably good standard. Disgruntled ex-employees maybe?
@@rentaltoast2201 “without consequence”… just wait til they’re adults and have to live with the cringe memories of their edgy phase being literally plastered over walls in bright neon spray paint. Don’t know why but that idea is funny to me
@MSi GS70 6QE I took a giant runny 💩 in a Walmart toilet one time & when I raised a cheek for my first wipe, it triggered the "automatic flush"...It was an INCREDIBLY AGGRESSIVE FLUSH unfortunately!!! 🤬🤬🤬 Sprayed shitty water all over my junk, & bare ass!!! 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮 TERRIBLE FUCKING DESIGN!!! "Shit Break" from the American Pie movies may have been on to something 🤔
A quick update from a local's perspective. I live in the area and checked it out recently, the Walmart is undergoing construction at the moment along with the entire parking lot. The giant eagle (the last store in this plaza staying open) had a scare during the epidemic and was almost going to close for good. Thankfully it is still open (because there are very few other options in this area and other locals did not want it to close). Most of the other stores have not been touched since this video came out, but they are still trying to sell and renovate a lot of the properties here. After seeing the replacement of the sinking parking lot there is already visible damage and sinking in only a few months. The mayor has been trying to get the police and others to move here though it may not be a huge improvement over where they are now. If you pass by around now you will definitely see machinery on the property, though progress is very slow and the direction that this update is taking is still unclear. Godspeed.
The next grocery store for that area (I used to work around here) is like 20 min away or you use this place called Dave’s supermarket which isn’t idea kinda weird inside lol
As a canadian what is giant eagle also that walmart to me screams early 2000s along with the walmart near me EDIT: r.i.p old Walmart look it's getting renovated
"if you build on trash what you'll end up with it trash?" - Not at all. There are dozens of SUCCESSFUL examples of redeveloping this type of site all around the country. In Houston, a golf course was built atop an old landfill, and they capture the methane and generate electricity from it. In Pittsburgh, there's an entire neighborhood built on top of what used to be a waste dump for steel mills. There are other examples in Portland and Detroit. All of these are perfectly safe and offer tremendous value to residents, retail tenants, and guests because they were done RIGHT.
There's a golf course down here in Fl that is built on top of an old landfill. It's an awesome course... but I would say that is about the limit of the usefulness of building on top of an old landfill. It only has a few tiny maintenance buildings on it. In the case of the Walmart in this video, I mean, it's compacted trash, OF COURSE these mega-buildings sunk! Isn't that a virtual guarantee?
Looks like a good spot to organize a death culling between the KKK and various black street gangs. I mean it's better for everyone if we could get them to kill themselves off. Lots of dead bodies, that's what this place needs, along with some hauntings, and then it'll be complete.
Having worked in solid waste for several years, I can safely say that everyone involved in this disaster damn well knew the potential of subsidence on top of a landfill. That was an incredibly stupid idea to begin with. The EPA, above all, knew goddamn well what would likely happen. Unbelievable.
how destroy a communitie? and local economics ,.. build huge malls and make sure to build them next to giant landsfills, high energy polution so every one gets sick...
They didn't build next to the old landfill either. They build ON TOP of it. That's just idiotic. Not only do you have high concentrations of dangerous substances, but there's no way the ground will be stable enough to build huge structures.
but the comedy is priceless.... when Jake shows the elevation differences I couldn't stop laughing lol the stairs should meet the ground but the stairs are up here, the ground's down here.....stairs, meet ground, ground, stairs.... uum the stairs are too far away....uuh yeah the ground is too far away dawg.... LMAO I'm horrible lol
I agree with Sergio on this. Osaka airport is built on reclaimed land (Multiple 80t planes landing and taking off daily, plus various terminals and traffic!!!). Since 1900s, many cities have extensive constructions on reclaimed land. Manhattan for example. Key question: there is so much knowledge on the subject, why project FUBAR? Did they hire unqualified surveyers, or simply because its cheap. What were city officials thinking? Leaving an eye sore for centuries to come.
When my husband and I went there and filmed,we left not long after we got inside Walmart because he heard a noise and he said "Let's get out of here!" Thinking it could've been a squatter or druggie,we got outta there fast!
It’s not just that it was built on a landfill. It’s that the landfill illegally accepted toxic waste and never properly disposed of any of it. Not only are byproducts of garbage decomposing hazardous, but now you’ve got toxic waste mixed into that. It’s horrible!!!
It does look stately and fits the decor of most cities that Walmart has infiltrated. Kinda nice that everything will match soon. That is if you like dumps.
The sad part is the idiots who bribed them didn't think "Hey, we're building on a landfill, won't it sink and cost us money to fix everything?" How can people that are that rich be so stupid, I deserve to be rich lol
Joey Flores because they borrow their money and then just default on the debts, then the banks do the same thing and start packiging their debts into ever-increasingly complex packages and suddenly you’re whole economy is in disarray. They do it by the boatloads, sadly. Privatizing gains and socializing losses, as ultimately, tax money is used to fund the Fed and aid the ailing financial institutions.
@@josephflores628 you do know that landfills are just dirt right? They take the trash and pile it in layers, like this: Trash Dirt Trash Dirt Trash After that they put a fill of dirt on top of the finished pile. By the time the landfill is done with its usable life the bottom layers of trash are already decomposed. After multiple years the landfill is decomposed and sunken as far as it can go. This landfill was most likely very very old (from the time when they would just pile trash not dirt inbetween) and was not let sit for long enough so that it could fully sink. The people were probably very eager to build on the land and start making money.
Abandoned Walmart: **Exists** All of the defunct and abandoned retail stores that Walmart has killed: Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
Seeing a walmart without fixtures is absolutely incredible. It’s like an indoor stadium. I also admire the dedication of the vandal that spray painted “BUTT STUFF” near the roof.
You can come across graffiti on overhead signage on Irelands recently built motorways. With no obvious pedestrian access and at very high locations. I sometimes wonder how the vandals reach these places without being caught by police.
So who the hell was the group of engineers that said "sure you can build on a "DECAYING SINKHOLE" .....it'll hold" WTF ; did they even finish grade school ?????!!!!!!!
@@CharlesFreckYou're not asking the right question. First of all, that 'someone' in your comparison happens to be an authority. And if an authority tells you something is safe, then it is and they are also liable if it isn't. Part of regulator's job is to say if something is safe and give certification like a permit to say that it's okay. A developer will just wait on that and once they get the go signal, they will build. Had the EPA inspected the site better, the entire project would have accounted for the problem or not build at all. The developer could even repurpose it to waste to energy plant.
Before this shopping center was built the smell from the landfill was terrible. I drove passed it every day on the way to work. When they started building it I thought to myself, that's not going to end well. I recently moved back to the area and I was certainly not surprised that the ground was leaking methane. What's difficult to see in these videos is that it's not just sinking, it's slowly sliding down the side of a steep valley toward the Cuyahoga river.
Much as I'm no fan of Wal-Mart, it's not Wal-Marts fault. Wal-Mart neither built, nor closed that landfill. The real fault lies with who ever capped the landfill, and signed off that it was a buildable location suitable for this type of use. Once capped, most landfills usually remain open area parks for this reason.
I lived in Cleveland when they started to build this. As a kid we drove by it while it was still an active landfill and it always smelled but... the stench coming from it now while trying to drive across that bridge was absolutely unbearable. I’ve dealt with weeks old corpses and every bodily fluid you can think of and this was 100 times worse. I assumed they breached/removed the clay cap on the landfill, whether intentionally or not, and I said there’s no way they can build a shopping center there.
So, the EPA says "Go ahead," and then, a couple billion dollars later, says, "oops," and the taxpayers are gonna foot the bill for the Superfund cleanup. Who's getting fired?
Nobody, and it'll keep happening with Trump putting coal industry lobbyists in charge of the EPA specifically so they won't do the job of regulating properly.
could make for a cool drone practice area, no wind to worry about. They should be fine i think. Collect a shit ton of boxes from dumpsters and make a mega fort.
It astounds me that these developers looked at an old, methane leaking garbage dump and said, “Yup, looks like the perfect place to build a shopping plaza.”
METHANE. LANDSLIDES. POISON. OH MY!! I like how well versed you are with basic Walmart design. Octagon Bagging Areas. Wood floor distinctions. Haha. Great video.
I live in an ex-coal mining area. Originally we had separate villages, each with its own mine. The land between the villages is where the coal was taken from. Roll on 40 years since the mines closed and developers are building massive housing estates to join the small villages together. I've checked to see what the builders are doing to make houses safe from the mining problems - they place a sheet of plastic beneath each house. That's it. The land is still sinking and houses are already starting to subside and crack and tip sideways. People are losing all their savings on 'investments' when buying those houses. I tell newcomers about the old mines but they choose to ignore me. They will learn soon enough when they're able to place a ball in one corner of their living room and it rolls to the far end by itself...
As rich as Walmart is they should not be allowed to leave abandoned Walmart stores. They should be knocked out and put Back To Nature that is ridiculous
It's probably not safe to bring equipment for a demolition in. I guess you could use explosives, but then there's the methane from the landfill, too. If that gets lit by an explosion, you've just added as unknown amount of explosives to your demolition, and those two words don't go together.
It seems like maybe they were trying to make use of what was already unusable land by building the shopping center on it. Probably the first time it was tried, and it didn't work out. I find it difficult to believe that they didn't already know about the landfill, so it had to be part of the promotion. As already stated, Walmart probably doesn't own the property. They probably lease most of their locations. The company I work for sold all of the locations that we owned because there isn't really a return on investment to own, unless you are in the real estate business. You may pay a similar amount to lease, but when Walmart shops these kind of sites, the developer covers part of all of the construction costs, and in return Walmart attracts other renters. Then, when it's no longer profitable, they can finish the current contract and walk away without having to invest more to get rid of it. Remember, it's 'natural' state before the shopping center was a landfill. At least the weight of the building is compressing the trash to speed up the decay.
Why did they even build on that site? Such a waste of capital. It's not like it was built in the 50s where they probably didn't give a flip about environmental hazards and stuff but this was fricking the 2000s.
The world does not need any more of these million Ft.² corporate clusterfucks. We need more small to medium sized, privately owned business with accessible parking, quality products and capable staff who get paid enough to want to show up and do the job. These airplane hangars are a blight upon the face of the earth and serve no purpose other than to make about 20 or so huge corporations even richer, despite the fact that they can buy a Gulfstream 12 seater for every day of the week. The wolf you feed, folks. The wolf you feed.
The thing is...many successful things have been built on top of landfills. In CA we have a Field of Dreams stadium with multiple baseball parks and small stadiums that's been there for decades. They constantly recheck for any problems that might arise, especially since kids play on those fields. However, they made sure everything was solid and structurally sound, the land had been compacted, etc., so that these problems didn't arise. This seems like they just started building without having any freaking clue what they were doing. Either that, or they just wanted to save money and cut corners by now making sure it was done properly in the first place.
The electrical looks like it’s mostly gone already, wires cut off at outlets, panels left wide open, no breakers anywhere other then large ones. Even looks like some of the ballasts have been taken from the lights.
Board meeting: "Okay guys, I think... we should build the mega shopping center... on top of this landfill. Thoughts?" "I think it's a great idea!" "Genius!" "Gosh you're smart!" "But sir, isn't a landfill basically unstable, movable ground that can't support large structures?" (silence) "Peterson, nobody asked you. Get out."
Same, but I hype so much more over abandoned mental asylums(with the video giving some sort of history about them) :P I would love to explore just any abandoned building but I don’t have anyone to go with, any respiratory mask thingies, or left buildings around me cri
my guess is that there are not that many skaters nor needy people...there is so much material there that can be perfectly recycle.... wood, planks, doors, stairs, wooden floor, etc
So sad...I grew up here and remember the hype around this project. Bridgeview was supposed to be done next but never came to be. I remember shopping at all of these places while it was still open. There's an Applebee's still operating around the back side too. Honestly, most of the people my age (20 at the time) was super upset that they were building on our childhood stomping grounds call "The Dump" for obvious reasons. We used to dirt bike back there, light off fireworks and do everything else bored kids would do. We used to find a ton of old abandoned buildings and even a few houses from another failed building attempt in the 70's when a house blew up and that ended that.
My mom used to teach at an elementary school that was built on top of an old toxic construction waste dump site. There was asbestos, lead, and other dangerous materials buried in the ground there. It wasn’t until several teachers died of cancer that they started looking into it. The school closed and I believe they’re making the building into apartments now. And yes, I’m serious.
@John Sanabria What does this Ohio mess have to do with the Chinese? Just because you heard about chinese buying property, I don't make them a scapegoat for all American stupidity and corporate profiteering... just like the illegal immigrants from Mexico and Muslims aren't scapegoats for all problems that stem from financial greed, mismanagement, overspending due to American greed. I am an American and I see the corporate greed and also messed up lives due to the spending culture that is out of control.
My neighborhood was built on an landfill. (Somewhere around 1973... that's the earliest date I could find on a house on my street via public records.) my mother has lived here since the early 80's/super late 70's and in 2 of the houses. (my uncle lived in a another one) long story. Anyways she said that you could dig ANYWHERE in the backyard, and find carpet. And in my uncles backyard, there were bottles. We've never heard anything about methane, though. (or the soil.)
I'm thinking it was a lot of organic matter or they filled in a swampy area where they dumped and once it was filled with concrete and continued to decompose releasing Methane gas and heat. I'm also basing this on when we turned over a pile of compost +horse poop it puts off heat. I could be completely wrong.
Hey when you are doing urban exploration you should always wear some type of respirator because of mold and other potentially hazardous fumes. The rule is if you can smell it, you are breathing it. I only mention this because you mentioned smelling mold and it could have been any of a thousand hazardous strains. Black mold gets all of the attention but there are a ton of others that can cause problems. Just be aware and try to take precautions. Also do not use the painter's masks because they do not catch mold spores.
Dont forget long pants, close-toed shoes, a long-sleeved shirt/jacket/sweater, and disposable gloves to cover your full body and keep anything from touching your skin, even if the mold itself isn't as harmful to the skin as it is to the lungs.
@@WolfxQueen89 Not my Fault your State is the laughing stock of the Nation. You all have clearly never heard of turn signals or Education for that matter.
It's crazy how far people will take a prank for clickbait views.... this guy literally built an entire shopping center and vandalized it just for views....the nerve of some people....
I can't understand how preliminary soil sampling - which is usually mandatory before construction begins with such large structures - couldn't see this. Unless it was never done.
When everything is contracted out and engineers, managers, and builders refrain from clear and effective communication with accurate data this is the result. Not just the Wal-Mart way; the American way!
Even if the soil samples were fine, you don't need to be an expert to predict that even if the building foundations are sound, the surrounding land would drop like this as things rotted down and the methane escapes. Its like the people who okayed this lacked any basic knowledge of physics.
Apparently there are plans to redevelop this place as a business park. What the hell goes through the minds of these people!? This is NOT a place you "redevelop". This is a place you demolish and move on. Its going to have the same issues as before, so why even bother?
Option A: Destroy it or just leave it and go build LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE. Or... Option B: Try to make building on a garbage dump work. Why do these developers keep trying to go with B?? Do they like wasting money?
Strangely there is another abandoned Walmart only 15 away in Bedford Ohio. I remember visiting my mom at work at Garfield Heights middle school and when the wind was right you could smell that place a mile away. And are we sure it's a Superfund site? Nothing on EPA website as a current former or propose npl site.
I'm browsing that part of Ohio on Gmaps. Looks like there's a lot of abandoned structures in that area. Meadowbrook Heights Mall, Randall Square... Man, a lot of good places to learn defensive driving. Where I live all we have is a mall parking lot, and half of it is still used all day.
Bedfords abandoned shopping mall Meadowbrook is just that.. abandoned. It was built on good land. After Target and Walmart moved, everything else went with it.
@@johnstevens1192 Electric go karts exist, there's actually a growing number of indoor electric tracks around the world that operate year round. Way more torque than a gas motor too, since it all kicks in at one.
Some shady business dealings all around with this shopping center. Somebody thought they were getting some cheap land, the contractors made their money, the investors got the hose. The EPA gave the green light? That's a savage loss.
The engineering team behind this site's development needs a good, hard kick in the ass. This is just unacceptable. "What a mess" indeed. Great video, by the way =D
It’s been done successfully in the past. The massive Palisades Center in Nyack, NY was built on a landfill in the late 90s and has remained structurally sound to this day.
If you read his comment again you'll find his last name is white :) Nejati was replying to Timothy simply saying a rich man only thought of short term progress rather than the long term :/
Remember Love Canal? I don't know if that was the first ever, but it was the first that made big news and had strong public response. A whole neighborhood had many cancer cases happening and after a while neighbors began realizing they weren't the only ones with cancers showing up, many in the neighborhood also were fighting cancer. Children and adults. The answer was found that the neighborhood was build on landfill and was laden with cancer causing chemicals. They are still doing this horrible practice. Whenever I am asked to donate to breast cancer causes I say I want equal money dedicated to cleaning up the environment - air, water and land . The cancer rate would come down drastically. When I was 20 years old one in 20-25 women got diagnosed with breast cancer. Now it is one in 4 or worse. Prevention would save many women, many mothers, grandmothers, sisters and wives. The loss is too unbearable.
Considering Boomer exposure to radiation from nuclear atmospheric testing in the late '40s and '50s, I'm surprised that the cancer rate is as low as it is... not to mention the additives used to flavor, color and preserve food since the '40s, and THEN the toxic dump sites.
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Is that building still there with the power on? If so, you NEED to tell the authorities; if it were to collapse due to the foundation, wires will get ripped, sparks will fly... and kaboom. Besides which, it's a waste of power.
You did a real good job here, pictures, researchs editing, thumbs up :)
The Legacy I think it’s skylights. And the music is edited over. Dan bell does that too
The Legacy *watches a little more* oh yup you are right
Bright Sun Films you make really high-quality work its amazing great videos
Still has more registers open than my Walmart....
Same here. Sometimes it's just ridiculous.
Let's boycott the self-checkouts! Last time I was there every SINGLE register was closed, except those damned things! I went to the cigarette isle and waited until I got rang up (and didn't buy any smokes, either!)
I went to a Walmart in PA on a slow day and every register had a cashier. All self checkout lanes were working. I come home to NJ and the local wally has 1 cashier and maybe 3 semi functional self checkouts.
Chrisc0Disc0 agreed
Lol haha
“It was built on a garbage land-fill.”
Yeah, you already said it was in Cleaveland.
FUCKING DEAD!!!
12SPASTIC12 Believe me, there are other places that are worse they’ve built golf courses on land fills.
Plus the dude can’t even spell right
***Cleveland. And it's in Garfield Heights.
What’s sad is that no one here has been to Cleveland.
FYI - methane is an odorless gas. You could easily walk in and never leave. And the pet store had no air flow, enabling mold growth. Consider yourself lucky to have walked away.
Now that is creepy af. Great comment, pin to the top so ppl don't make same mistake.
Its only odorless at room temp. It's also not generally toxic but the way it sits in the air it can suffocate you
That's something that methane and Walmart have in common
My methane isn’t odorless
You did notice the car following behind him in the reflections on the glass right?
There is a novel called “Rats” that is about a town built on top of a paved landfill and how horrific it became... this totally reminds me of it!
Jennifer Nix is it based on real events?
whos the autor?
I’ll give you one up. Love Canal, NY (outside of Buffalo). It was built on waste from factories that they dumped into a man made lake, then filled the lake in, THEN built houses on it. It has a fence around the worst of the neighborhoods that no one can go into (except vandals who care to I guess)
Read more on Love Canal, NY. Dupont is the parent company of Hooker who filled the abandoned canal with dioxin. They then sold the land deed for $1 to the board of education. At that point the neighborhood was developed.
Read up on Lois Gibbs.
@@junkbox_ with names like Love Canal & hooker, what do you expect?
So... The place is leaking Methane gas, and they think its okay to leave damaged power lines running through the stores?!!!?!
Kyle Gray Why not? An explosion would save on demolition costs! 😂
I’m honestly shocked at how many abandoned buildings still have power. There’s some Ames urbex videos I’ve seen where some of the lights are still on...and they went completely under in 2002! Is there still someone paying the bills after all this time, or is the power company just too lazy to disconnect them?
Nathan2055 I think it’s the power company that doesn’t really know about it.
Nathan2055 if you disconnect it the copper thieves will come running to strip every ounce of the copper out of the building down to the wiring in the sockets to sell for scrap. Now before you accuse someone of being lazy.... check a mirror.
@@randyweaver6543 That's possible, but most the time scrappers do it anyway
My dad hauled garbage and as a kid I would occasionally go to work with him, including to this dump in the early 70's. I can't believe people were stupid enough to try to build on hundreds of feet deep garbage. The toxic chemicals alone must be a nightmare.
BixbyConsequence this is the epitome of America.
Must be incredible and for this incident can only ask if anyone learned lessons from the Love Canal incident and can only wonder about. Which now can Google it up really a tragedy.
Quit lying
@@houston77073 Yeah, what an incredible lie. His dad hauled shit. How unbelievable! 🙄
The average individual knows building on a landfill wasn't a wise idea... shame on the individuals responsible for this mess...all for a few quick dollars... where was the EPA...when this was developed?
What was the city thinking...
They essentially used a dump to make another dump...
Callie Kuczek
Money. More than likely bought the site super cheap. With the mindset of “we can make money”
If Its done right you can do this safely but they clearly didn't lmao
that’s cleveland for you. we dumb as hell
Iunno it's Ohio dude. Now they want to put a jail there.
Some dummy came up with the idea, and sold it to a bunch of other dummies!! When was any politician ever accused of thinking things through?
It's amazing that anyone built there without first obtaining an engineering report from a reputable firm that would document gas permeation from the soil, as well as soil stability. It looks like the developers really didn't want to know. Just pocket the development money and run.
And the city officials? They just wanted another tax base for additional revenue.
MrShobar You’re right! How were the developers even permitted to build? When building on a previous landfill, there are a multitude of additional inspections that MUST take place. It is very apparent that this did not take place. These developers and city officials should be criminally charged
Not surprised-here in Boston MA, the UMASS Boston Campus was built on top of an old dump (1970s); they had to install a vent system to disperse the methane gas. The whole thing provoked a major scandal-several state officials were convicted and sent to jail. Corrupt politicians are always the cause of this, along with a well-entrenched political machine.
MrShobar I was going to comment this exact thing!! How on earth did they approve building this thing on top of a dump??!! How stupid do you have to be to think this was a good idea?!
The only acceptable use for an old landfill is parkland. But that doesn't make people rich.
Wouldn't matter GREEN POWER! People will do anything just for the money today too hell with tomorrow, after all an engineer doesn't have to shop in Wal-Mart! How would you tell your boss HE/SHE is wrong?
The sinking ground under and around Walmart was caused by Walmart's constantly lower prices.
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Fuck you for making me laugh! You ass!
Lol
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Good job making it wear the background music truly sounded like it was actually playing in the store.
Jacob Cottrell learn grammar
@@joeycalderwood9814 Learn how to read so when you see *one* wrong word you still understand what they were saying and stop acting like this.
If you're on TH-cam looking for proper spelling and grammar in the comments, you have truly done all there is to otherwise do in life.
Maybe it was🤔 eh idk
Spaghetti
Trash to treasure....
To trash.
Yup, I was trying to figure out how it was treasure. More of an eyesore than even a landfill.
I'm still befuddled at Garfield Heights' plans to relocate the city jail *to the abandoned PetSmart* ... the mayor has to be totally oblivious to how dangerous that area is. Forget the methane and vinyl chlorine... you want to put your city at risk to liabilities for placing inmates in a building where the land around it is sinking and settling? Absolutely foolish and a preventable disaster in the making.
Marty Moose Probably because the total cost for building the shopping center totalled $1B? But signs of doom began when Home Depot had their own independent inspectors look at the land, and they discovered what the developers and Ohio EPA were trying to hide.
Nathan Obral
They could leave the site for 5-10 years and see if theres any further sinkage, the sinkage may have already stopped and what was shown happened in the first few years. Landfill sites are such a horrible and wasteful use of land, what should you do with such sites? Giving it over to nature is one option I guess.
"...what should you do with such sites?"
Keep them as landfills?
Actually, Wal-Mart has been known for abandoning buildings and opening locations just miles away from the original. Of course leaving the first building to decay and eventually the city is forced to tear it down for safety reasons.
My town is on it's third Wal-Mart building, all within a half mile of each other. Though, in our case, both of the old buildings were eventually reused, the first as a Value City and the second as a Burlington.
My city closed a Walmart in the late 90’s only to open another one in the exact same spot in 2015.
They are also known for promising a bunch of stuff like environmental remediation projects and things to towns that give them tax incentives for moving there then once they are up and running just “forget” about it
Rural King out of Columbus Ohio likes to buy old Walmart stores for their own....that happened 6 miles down the road, and a quarter mile further is a new Walmart Supercenter...
The old hypermart in garland tx that was converted to a Walmart in 2000 closed for no reason :(
17:18 Dude you need to wear a respirator or something, these videos aren't worth your health. That mold (which was everywhere in PetSmart) is a serious indicator that the air isn't acceptable for breathing. Keep safe brother.
Usually I do, unfortunately I didn’t have it on hand with me when I filmed this. If only Walmart was open...
Ur health bud lol
@@BrightSunFilms WHY THEY CLOSED IT WHY
@@joselitorodriguez4936 Did you not see that it was over a dangerous ground(s) it was dangerous since methane come in but never leave
Even a basic face mask. For your channel...you should have them in bulk in your car
It astounds me how developers can mess up THAT BAD.
It’s intentional
Not me! Walmart shoppers would feel at home the way they dress! It would be like perfume for them!
They likely decided to short cut the $10,000 engineering study and went ahead and built a several million dollar shopping complex anyway.
I get the feeling many developers hope to fail so that they can collect.
Yeah like you’re literally building on trash what did you think was gonna happen
1:45 You can still see a walmart employee walking around looking at the mess and saying this isn't my department.
I agree on that.
Best comment I've seen in a while. Made me LOL for real.
I dont get it
Mike Gee toxic walmart employees lol
Elephant in the room
“This looks like it was a Subway.”
*pans camera to where the words “f*ck Subway” are graffitied on the wall.*
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
You know you were pissed off when walmart replaced mcdonalds with subways
@@doozy435 I wouldn't be.
I like 'em both!
He also said it looked like the grooming area in pet smart with a giant sign that said grooming 10 seconds later
I love that you went into the men's restroom even in an abandoned building. Habits
I would’ve gone into the woman’s bathrooms. Haha JK JK
@@DildoFreak69 I would have
I bet the women's restroom still has power and a fresh lemon scented just-cleaned-by-someone-who-knows how aroma. Women's bathrooms are home to arcane and ancient technology.
@@mathewhex7045 The massive toxic farts and shits from the Women of Walmart definitely destroyed any of the advanced good-smelling technology inside there. Guarantee it.
@@birdie8006 I can attest to this. The wamens room smells rank too sweethearts ❤️
3 rules that every urban explorer should follow.
1. No matter where you go always wear a protective mask
2. Never explore an empty space by yourself.
And
3. If you hear any crying, sobs, or whispering. Stop where you are and leave the area immediately.
What about screaming
If I hear any voices I'm out
Buggle Magnuth case closed period
That last one...L4D recently?
4. Bring a handgun
Walmart = trashed and littered with graffiti
Petsmart = relatively in shape and pretty much no graffiti.
Also Petsmart = MOLD EVERYWHERE
Everyone loves pets
It smelled horrible in the PetSmart when Jake was there hence no graffiti.
Society’s natural hate for Walmart and love for animals!
There is alot of mold that contains Methane in that petsmart. Vandalizers could instantly get respiratory failures and alot of times death. Jake is lucky since he survived.
3:03 damn, someone had to use this Walmart in an emergency, took a huge as explosive shit and exploded the damn toilet.
HAHAHAHHAHHA
All this time I was thinking how perfect that building was for skating
Exactly! My first thought..Skate it!
I don't even skate and I was thinking that
I agree. It's a perfect roller skating rink.
I was thinking about singing
Sameeee
This is an insane story. I had never heard about this before.
Side note: I love how you never comment on the insane and gross stuff written in graffiti in a lot of these places. I don’t know why, but it always makes me giggle to see something totally bizarre on the wall while you give thorough historical information.
The moment when he was like "this looks like it was a Subway" and then pans across the back wall where someone wrote "fuck Subway!" made me laugh
The mad thing is that the vandals are clever enough to read and write. Many similar vandals in Ireland would always make basic spelling mistakes or squiggles or indecipherable symbols, the meaning of which is only known to fellow gang members and their associates.
The lettering and spelling in these spray messages is of a tolerably good standard. Disgruntled ex-employees maybe?
@@jgdooley2003 nah just teens. You can tell by how edgy some of the messages are. It’s just kids expressing themselves freely without consequence
@@rentaltoast2201 “without consequence”… just wait til they’re adults and have to live with the cringe memories of their edgy phase being literally plastered over walls in bright neon spray paint. Don’t know why but that idea is funny to me
@@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro yeah i just meant no consequences in terms of legality.
That's the cleanest Walmart restroom I've ever seen!
LordHumungous619 best comment so far!
Can’t stop laughing.....the only reason I saw so much of the video is cuz of the great comments on every post.
That exploded toilet looked way better that the one I had to take a dump in at Walmart last week... WAAAAY BETTER. #TRUTH 💩💩💩
@MSi GS70 6QE I took a giant runny 💩 in a Walmart toilet one time & when I raised a cheek for my first wipe, it triggered the "automatic flush"...It was an INCREDIBLY AGGRESSIVE FLUSH unfortunately!!! 🤬🤬🤬 Sprayed shitty water all over my junk, & bare ass!!! 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮
TERRIBLE FUCKING DESIGN!!!
"Shit Break" from the American Pie movies may have been on to something 🤔
Was going to say i've seen worse..
A quick update from a local's perspective. I live in the area and checked it out recently, the Walmart is undergoing construction at the moment along with the entire parking lot. The giant eagle (the last store in this plaza staying open) had a scare during the epidemic and was almost going to close for good. Thankfully it is still open (because there are very few other options in this area and other locals did not want it to close). Most of the other stores have not been touched since this video came out, but they are still trying to sell and renovate a lot of the properties here. After seeing the replacement of the sinking parking lot there is already visible damage and sinking in only a few months. The mayor has been trying to get the police and others to move here though it may not be a huge improvement over where they are now. If you pass by around now you will definitely see machinery on the property, though progress is very slow and the direction that this update is taking is still unclear. Godspeed.
My question is, with all the obvious problems, HOW is Giant Eagle staying open?!?!
@@kaelinbrady3804 my guess is once their lease is up it will close. You still have Dave's, Marc's and Save-a-Lot around there.
The next grocery store for that area (I used to work around here) is like 20 min away or you use this place called Dave’s supermarket which isn’t idea kinda weird inside lol
OMG shops still open in that complex? Mind boggles …
As a canadian what is giant eagle also that walmart to me screams early 2000s along with the walmart near me EDIT: r.i.p old Walmart look it's getting renovated
What I would give to roller skate in that gigantic empty Wal Mart. Just needs a good sweep. :)
Was thinking the same thing 😅
I was more thinking the burnouts you could do in there
Build a small skate park in there if it wasn't on a sinkhole and methane everywhere
And an exorcism.
...just a small one, nothing too showy.
Same
The amount of WASTED resources.... all on-top of a landfill. The irony.
atleast they won't have to go far to dispose of these building materials
The moral of the story is if you build on trash what you'll end up with it trash?
"if you build on trash what you'll end up with it trash?" - Not at all. There are dozens of SUCCESSFUL examples of redeveloping this type of site all around the country. In Houston, a golf course was built atop an old landfill, and they capture the methane and generate electricity from it. In Pittsburgh, there's an entire neighborhood built on top of what used to be a waste dump for steel mills. There are other examples in Portland and Detroit. All of these are perfectly safe and offer tremendous value to residents, retail tenants, and guests because they were done RIGHT.
Parts of NYC were built a top a landfill
There's a golf course down here in Fl that is built on top of an old landfill. It's an awesome course... but I would say that is about the limit of the usefulness of building on top of an old landfill. It only has a few tiny maintenance buildings on it. In the case of the Walmart in this video, I mean, it's compacted trash, OF COURSE these mega-buildings sunk! Isn't that a virtual guarantee?
Fallout: new Walmart
gameus boyius , 😂😂😂😂😂
Oh yeah yeah
Totally thought that 😂
Its just become Fallout: SUPER DUPER MEGA ULTRA STINKY RAD-INFESTED MART! Complete with mole rat and glowing ones everywhere
Looks like a good spot to organize a death culling between the KKK and various black street gangs. I mean it's better for everyone if we could get them to kill themselves off. Lots of dead bodies, that's what this place needs, along with some hauntings, and then it'll be complete.
It always amazes me that civil engineers, trained to be experts on construction projects like this, manage to get it wrong so badly
Imagine spending a billion dollars and still not doing it right
J That’s part of being human lmao.
That's very Walmart.
-A Walmart associate
look at the Seahawks Stadium
(search & read about Target in Canada. they lasted 1 year & wasted $1,000,000,000)
greed begets greed
Having worked in solid waste for several years, I can safely say that everyone involved in this disaster damn well knew the potential of subsidence on top of a landfill. That was an incredibly stupid idea to begin with. The EPA, above all, knew goddamn well what would likely happen.
Unbelievable.
how destroy a communitie? and local economics ,.. build huge malls and make sure to build them next to giant landsfills, high energy polution so every one gets sick...
Not NEXT TO landfills, ON TOP OF. That is why the ground is sinking.
They knew they were going to get rich quick and fuck the consequences or aftermath.....
Meanwhile in my hometown we have a city park built on top of a landfill, Mt Trashmore.
They didn't build next to the old landfill either. They build ON TOP of it. That's just idiotic. Not only do you have high concentrations of dangerous substances, but there's no way the ground will be stable enough to build huge structures.
Building on a landfill is stupid.
Building on a landfill which happens to be a big hill is insane.
It could be built with the right procedures, there's a big mall in Mexico City built on top of an abandoned landfill. Just look for Centro Santa Fe
Building another Walmart anywhere, EVER, for any reason is stupid.
but the comedy is priceless....
when Jake shows the elevation differences I couldn't stop laughing lol
the stairs should meet the ground but the stairs are up here, the ground's down here.....stairs, meet ground, ground, stairs....
uum the stairs are too far away....uuh yeah the ground is too far away dawg....
LMAO I'm horrible lol
Spending 1 Freaking BILLION DOLLARS on a STRIP MALL in CLEVELAND?!! THAT’S what’s Moronic!
I agree with Sergio on this. Osaka airport is built on reclaimed land (Multiple 80t planes landing and taking off daily, plus various terminals and traffic!!!).
Since 1900s, many cities have extensive constructions on reclaimed land. Manhattan for example.
Key question: there is so much knowledge on the subject, why project FUBAR? Did they hire unqualified surveyers, or simply because its cheap.
What were city officials thinking? Leaving an eye sore for centuries to come.
When my husband and I went there and filmed,we left not long after we got inside Walmart because he heard a noise and he said "Let's get out of here!" Thinking it could've been a squatter or druggie,we got outta there fast!
Nikki Ree Explores did you bring any gas mask or mask with you?
I hope he didn’t run first lol
Build a massive shopping center on an old hillside landfill, they said. It'll be FINE, they said.
then they said, "Pay us."
It would’ve been fine, construction operations where rushed
its only structural
It’s not just that it was built on a landfill. It’s that the landfill illegally accepted toxic waste and never properly disposed of any of it. Not only are byproducts of garbage decomposing hazardous, but now you’ve got toxic waste mixed into that. It’s horrible!!!
It does look stately and fits the decor of most cities that Walmart has infiltrated.
Kinda nice that everything will match soon.
That is if you like dumps.
They moved the headstones but they didn't move the graves! Kinda reminds me of that.
NYangryguy 😂 Thanks for that, totally made me laugh out loud.
You sir get the gold star for that comment. 🌟
YES! I get the reference. Because I am old
Hahahahahahaaaa!
Poltergeist
I guarantee some EPA executive was bribed to approve building this
The sad part is the idiots who bribed them didn't think "Hey, we're building on a landfill, won't it sink and cost us money to fix everything?" How can people that are that rich be so stupid, I deserve to be rich lol
Joey Flores because they borrow their money and then just default on the debts, then the banks do the same thing and start packiging their debts into ever-increasingly complex packages and suddenly you’re whole economy is in disarray. They do it by the boatloads, sadly. Privatizing gains and socializing losses, as ultimately, tax money is used to fund the Fed and aid the ailing financial institutions.
@@josephflores628 you do know that landfills are just dirt right? They take the trash and pile it in layers, like this:
Trash
Dirt
Trash
Dirt
Trash
After that they put a fill of dirt on top of the finished pile. By the time the landfill is done with its usable life the bottom layers of trash are already decomposed. After multiple years the landfill is decomposed and sunken as far as it can go. This landfill was most likely very very old (from the time when they would just pile trash not dirt inbetween) and was not let sit for long enough so that it could fully sink. The people were probably very eager to build on the land and start making money.
EPA doesn't approve stuff before the fact, that's the local government. Somebody in Ohio lined their pockets, or just didn't do their job.
No shit I was thinking the same thing too. The building contractor probably got a few bucks also not to ask questions about building on a landfill.
Abandoned Walmart: **Exists**
All of the defunct and abandoned retail stores that Walmart has killed: Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!
at least you can just leave everything where it is and its already at the dump!
Lmfaoooo! Best comment ever
Good one.
Hahaha.
you're alright.
im really disappointed in the lack of quality graffiti
JacksonJS50Dinky same
I was thinking the same thing and they must be sexually deprived- all those penis pics.
1:50 Geez...Smells like the south
@Kilo Byte Shut up City licker
It’s Cleveland, what do you expect, Banksy?
Toxic gas and water -- Nothing but the best for Walmart shoppers
And Office Max customers, Best Buy customers, Marshall's customers, Pet Smart customers, etc. Your point?!
SoCalFreelance this made me chuckle
Jerry Crawford you clearly have your head up your ass...he said it because there’s weird people who shop at Walmart hence The People of Walmart.🙄
Jerry Crawford r/woosh
I "agree"
Seeing a walmart without fixtures is absolutely incredible. It’s like an indoor stadium. I also admire the dedication of the vandal that spray painted “BUTT STUFF” near the roof.
You can come across graffiti on overhead signage on Irelands recently built motorways. With no obvious pedestrian access and at very high locations. I sometimes wonder how the vandals reach these places without being caught by police.
So who the hell was the group of engineers that said "sure you can build on a "DECAYING SINKHOLE" .....it'll hold" WTF ; did they even finish grade school ?????!!!!!!!
They had the blessing of the EPA though, so part of the blames is on the regulatory agency.
@@side-fish Just because someone says the fall from the bridge won't kill you doesn't mean you should jump.
@@CharlesFreckYou're not asking the right question. First of all, that 'someone' in your comparison happens to be an authority. And if an authority tells you something is safe, then it is and they are also liable if it isn't.
Part of regulator's job is to say if something is safe and give certification like a permit to say that it's okay. A developer will just wait on that and once they get the go signal, they will build. Had the EPA inspected the site better, the entire project would have accounted for the problem or not build at all. The developer could even repurpose it to waste to energy plant.
all they cared about was getting paid, same with the city council, & gov't, i'm sure. it's all about greed...
Yes....they did finish grade-school, and now they run the government!
Before this shopping center was built the smell from the landfill was terrible. I drove passed it every day on the way to work. When they started building it I thought to myself, that's not going to end well. I recently moved back to the area and I was certainly not surprised that the ground was leaking methane. What's difficult to see in these videos is that it's not just sinking, it's slowly sliding down the side of a steep valley toward the Cuyahoga river.
and then they will have toxins in the river. thx wal-mart for leaving your mark on the community.
Nice.
Yay, we can burn the river. Again.
Much as I'm no fan of Wal-Mart, it's not Wal-Marts fault. Wal-Mart neither built, nor closed that landfill. The real fault lies with who ever capped the landfill, and signed off that it was a buildable location suitable for this type of use. Once capped, most landfills usually remain open area parks for this reason.
Where it will be ignited by the river and sent to Valhalla.
I would kill to drive a go kart or dirt bike in the big empty room
CaptainNuggie I know that feeling
Yeah and give yourself a headache.. that shit would echo beyond belief even his footsteps were echoing
Yeah, with all those supports just waiting to say, "Hello".
Rob Johnson That makes it more fun! You need something to drive around
@@bandombeviews6035 Ha. A pile of tires or hay will move when hit. The supports would say "surprise mf'er"
I lived in Cleveland when they started to build this. As a kid we drove by it while it was still an active landfill and it always smelled but... the stench coming from it now while trying to drive across that bridge was absolutely unbearable. I’ve dealt with weeks old corpses and every bodily fluid you can think of and this was 100 times worse. I assumed they breached/removed the clay cap on the landfill, whether intentionally or not, and I said there’s no way they can build a shopping center there.
So, the EPA says "Go ahead," and then, a couple billion dollars later, says, "oops," and the taxpayers are gonna foot the bill for the Superfund cleanup.
Who's getting fired?
Ever stop to think that the EPA just wants to see these greedy bastards go under?
Nobody, and it'll keep happening with Trump putting coal industry lobbyists in charge of the EPA specifically so they won't do the job of regulating properly.
I bet some EPA official took a bribe to allow them to build there.
@@leafsoto351 Said no government agency ever. Hollywood movies aren't real life, kid 😂
Here I was thinking, "man, this would make a great indoor gun range!" Then you mentioned methane gas.
It will add a little excitement.
darkspire91 🤣🤣
Methane probably wouldn't ignite from a gunshot.
JaguarFacedMan Ain't making conclusions, but if it isn't being vented for many years, the concentration might just be enough to hit combustion.
could make for a cool drone practice area, no wind to worry about. They should be fine i think. Collect a shit ton of boxes from dumpsters and make a mega fort.
Dont let the Giant Eagle sign fool you, It's not open. It's a warning of a mutant giant eagle there.
It's open, you silly goose.
I shop there. At least the parking lot is nice and spacious.
Edward Gaines r/wooosh
Edward Gaines I wonder why.
@@edwardgaines6561 you're putting your health at risk, just saying
@@goiabexp How so? I'm not drinking the water from that place. And the food comes from distribution hubs region-wide.
It astounds me that these developers looked at an old, methane leaking garbage dump and said, “Yup, looks like the perfect place to build a shopping plaza.”
Yeah but the owner had a good pitch and the buyer was blinded by the potential profits. The only person who came out on top was the seller.
there are a surprisingly large amount of schools and stadiums around the world that were built on old landfills because the land is cheap
METHANE. LANDSLIDES. POISON. OH MY!!
I like how well versed you are with basic Walmart design. Octagon Bagging Areas. Wood floor distinctions. Haha. Great video.
How did you post that 3 days ago when the video was just posted?!?
How did you comment Bedford the vid was uploaded?
@@erikscherer22 Time travel
Well he is Disney Dan.......
I wasn’t expecting you here XD
Worker: Why does this always happen?
“Hole on isle 7, hole on isle 7.”
Affectionately known as Garbage Heights.
OMG Litter-ally! XD
*im not funny*
As a resident, yes we're Garbage Heights. And there's other active landfills here too, but no one is in a hurry to build on them.
if a town has heights in the name of it it's probably garbage anyways
Isn't that the entire state of Ohio though?
ytown4 Yep! My extended family has lived there for years and call it this, lol. That’s where my dad grew up back in the day!
Kind of ironic that a huge shopping center built on a landfill will have to torn down and hauled off to a different landfill.
I live in an ex-coal mining area. Originally we had separate villages, each with its own mine. The land between the villages is where the coal was taken from. Roll on 40 years since the mines closed and developers are building massive housing estates to join the small villages together.
I've checked to see what the builders are doing to make houses safe from the mining problems - they place a sheet of plastic beneath each house. That's it.
The land is still sinking and houses are already starting to subside and crack and tip sideways. People are losing all their savings on 'investments' when buying those houses.
I tell newcomers about the old mines but they choose to ignore me. They will learn soon enough when they're able to place a ball in one corner of their living room and it rolls to the far end by itself...
Jack King Well, you tried to tell them!
You can't fix stupid.
gav240z Greed too, huh?
Sounds like a wet dream for Ghost Hunters: "Look! The ghosts are rolling the balls!!"
You can drop a ball on my floor and it will roll. My house was built in 1885. A lot of the houses visibly tilt and lean in town.
As rich as Walmart is they should not be allowed to leave abandoned Walmart stores. They should be knocked out and put Back To Nature that is ridiculous
It’s possible Walmart doesn’t own the building, but leased it. Dollar General stores have done this.
It's probably not safe to bring equipment for a demolition in. I guess you could use explosives, but then there's the methane from the landfill, too. If that gets lit by an explosion, you've just added as unknown amount of explosives to your demolition, and those two words don't go together.
It seems like maybe they were trying to make use of what was already unusable land by building the shopping center on it. Probably the first time it was tried, and it didn't work out. I find it difficult to believe that they didn't already know about the landfill, so it had to be part of the promotion.
As already stated, Walmart probably doesn't own the property. They probably lease most of their locations. The company I work for sold all of the locations that we owned because there isn't really a return on investment to own, unless you are in the real estate business. You may pay a similar amount to lease, but when Walmart shops these kind of sites, the developer covers part of all of the construction costs, and in return Walmart attracts other renters. Then, when it's no longer profitable, they can finish the current contract and walk away without having to invest more to get rid of it.
Remember, it's 'natural' state before the shopping center was a landfill. At least the weight of the building is compressing the trash to speed up the decay.
They'll be loading this place with those fema coffins. But I hope not
ITS GONNA BE THE PERFECT FEMA CAMP WAKE UP YOU NEED TO WAKE UP!!!
Why did they even build on that site? Such a waste of capital. It's not like it was built in the 50s where they probably didn't give a flip about environmental hazards and stuff but this was fricking the 2000s.
OhMyGulay just say fuck or fucking you’re not napoleon dynamite trying to stay pg
The world does not need any more of these million Ft.² corporate clusterfucks. We need more small to medium sized, privately owned business with accessible parking, quality products and capable staff who get paid enough to want to show up and do the job. These airplane hangars are a blight upon the face of the earth and serve no purpose other than to make about 20 or so huge corporations even richer, despite the fact that they can buy a Gulfstream 12 seater for every day of the week. The wolf you feed, folks. The wolf you feed.
Somebody thought they could scam their way in to some cheap "land", grease a few palms to get approval (had to I'm sure).
*"Cleveland: At least we're not Detroit."*
They're trying hard to be Detroit
Garfield Heights, Ohio
I don't think Detroit has an abandoned Walmart
At least we don’t have an abandoned Walmart in Detroit😂💯
Can’t have shit in Detroit
The thing is...many successful things have been built on top of landfills. In CA we have a Field of Dreams stadium with multiple baseball parks and small stadiums that's been there for decades. They constantly recheck for any problems that might arise, especially since kids play on those fields. However, they made sure everything was solid and structurally sound, the land had been compacted, etc., so that these problems didn't arise. This seems like they just started building without having any freaking clue what they were doing. Either that, or they just wanted to save money and cut corners by now making sure it was done properly in the first place.
Field of Dreams in Chino Hills?
No that's exactly what they did. The gvt officials in these particular areas are scummy and always have been. Money > people.
Jenn's Corner Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Isn’t there one in West Covina, too? Maybe it’s that one?
@@wetsocks811 wait. Politicians putting their greed over people's well being? That's just about everywhere.
@@bmstylee this comment is 9 months old. And I didn't need an echo. But ty
I'm surprised that scavengers haven't ripped all of the metal out of that place
Don’t give people any ideas! Scum bags read comments to lol...
One day there will be an epic explosion that will light all of Cleveland. @ShymFan2007
I think some of it has been scrapped maybe the plumbing pipes but not the electrics
@@mrkipling2201 In this day and age it's probably PEX tubing used instead of copper for plumbing.
The electrical looks like it’s mostly gone already, wires cut off at outlets, panels left wide open, no breakers anywhere other then large ones. Even looks like some of the ballasts have been taken from the lights.
Steel doors rust excessively like that in the presence of sulfur dioxide gas
Is that why one of those doors was so rusted out? I was wondering about that...
Yup, that was the scariest bit of this whole video.
@@FranklinaFlick ya wierd. Was toxic looking
HappyQuailsFarm Or other things, no need for the fear in people lol
Board meeting:
"Okay guys, I think... we should build the mega shopping center... on top of this landfill. Thoughts?"
"I think it's a great idea!"
"Genius!"
"Gosh you're smart!"
"But sir, isn't a landfill basically unstable, movable ground that can't support large structures?"
(silence)
"Peterson, nobody asked you. Get out."
A Simpson's episode for sure😂 🤓🥴
I agree.
No, they probably fired the guy who said that.
*Gets office chairs and computers thrown at him*
Corruption
Trash dump and Walmart... strangely poetic.
Or the same thing.
They go hand in hand, don't they?
Either the Co's didn't know about the land fill. Or didn't care.
Even Houses don't last sitting on Landfills.
The incomplete structure was originally going to be a JC PENNEY outlet, on the site of the never completed Bridgeview Crossing on Transportation Blvd.
I honestly find the topic of abandoned locations absolutely fascinating. :D
Right, they're so cool!
Me too.
Same, but I hype so much more over abandoned mental asylums(with the video giving some sort of history about them) :P I would love to explore just any abandoned building but I don’t have anyone to go with, any respiratory mask thingies, or left buildings around me cri
“Supreme Dopeness”
~ some 12 year old who painted that on an abandoned mall
Now this is a story all about how my Walmart got flipped, turned upside down
So good!
From West philadelphia born n raised in wallmart spent most of my days
I see what you did there.
😂😂
I’m surprised skaters haven’t taken it over and built ramps and diy concrete in there.
??
...let's breathe poison gasses as we exercise and have fun...???
"It's like skateboarding, only half the time someone dies!"
"Oh, so it's a little safer than skateboarding."
@Christopher Stephens wow good one, like your such a saint
my guess is that there are not that many skaters nor needy people...there is so much material there that can be perfectly recycle.... wood, planks, doors, stairs, wooden floor, etc
MASSIVE CLEANUP IN AISLE 5.
TRICK-OR TREAT - Aisle 5 has now taken all of Walmart.
There’s no aisles to clean up though.
@@dontquestionmyprofilepictu1177 r/woosh
massive cleanup under the foundations
is that an office reference or am i missing something?
So sad...I grew up here and remember the hype around this project. Bridgeview was supposed to be done next but never came to be. I remember shopping at all of these places while it was still open. There's an Applebee's still operating around the back side too. Honestly, most of the people my age (20 at the time) was super upset that they were building on our childhood stomping grounds call "The Dump" for obvious reasons. We used to dirt bike back there, light off fireworks and do everything else bored kids would do. We used to find a ton of old abandoned buildings and even a few houses from another failed building attempt in the 70's when a house blew up and that ended that.
Do people not have anything better to do than spray-paint swears and insults in an abandoned center?
You would think so
They also spray painted "Happy Dads Day!".....lolol
Dont forget the dicks...so many dicks🍆😂
Teenagers do not have anything better to do. Remember?
Melody B. Apparently not
You definitely need a mask or something on if you’re gonna be walking around abandoned structures bro.
According to faucci you need a mask anywhere or you will die
@@AlanpittsS2a fuck off
@@xMaluko big talk let's see you back it up
@@roymustang87 go fuck off too
@@xMaluko still waiting on you to back that tough talk up
I was having a pretty bad day.... then I saw this in my inbox. Everything is better now
Hope you're feeling better!
I hope you have a good rest of your day😊💖!
No one gives a fuck
“Looks like this was a Subway...”
Graffiti on the wall: “Fuck Subway!”
Me, after too many years of working there
My mom used to teach at an elementary school that was built on top of an old toxic construction waste dump site. There was asbestos, lead, and other dangerous materials buried in the ground there. It wasn’t until several teachers died of cancer that they started looking into it. The school closed and I believe they’re making the building into apartments now. And yes, I’m serious.
What school did your mom teached.
Note: I'm not telling what city do you live.
WTF
@John Sanabria What does this Ohio mess have to do with the Chinese? Just because you heard about chinese buying property, I don't make them a scapegoat for all American stupidity and corporate profiteering... just like the illegal immigrants from Mexico and Muslims aren't scapegoats for all problems that stem from financial greed, mismanagement, overspending due to American greed. I am an American and I see the corporate greed and also messed up lives due to the spending culture that is out of control.
@Grant C. Yes, what a debacle! Complete ineptitude is right.
Rivervalley by chance? Same story but no apartments. Just a big ass parking lot for new cars when they come off the train from the factory
I remember when they were building that. OMG the smell when they were excavating...
I remember Alex Johns saying it was going to be a FEMA CAMP
@@willepeete ohhhh alex...
how old is that place
Rick Chacon
He said in the video it was built in 2003.
Looks like it closed in 2008
Oh the Wal mart closed around 2006 then (3 years) the entire place closed 2 years later.
Haha, I remember I almost lost my wallet in their bathroom. An employee was nice enough to return it. Good times. It's sad passing by that empty lot!
My neighborhood was built on an landfill. (Somewhere around 1973... that's the earliest date I could find on a house on my street via public records.) my mother has lived here since the early 80's/super late 70's and in 2 of the houses. (my uncle lived in a another one) long story.
Anyways she said that you could dig ANYWHERE in the backyard, and find carpet. And in my uncles backyard, there were bottles.
We've never heard anything about methane, though. (or the soil.)
I'm thinking it was a lot of organic matter or they filled in a swampy area where they dumped and once it was filled with concrete and continued to decompose releasing Methane gas and heat. I'm also basing this on when we turned over a pile of compost +horse poop it puts off heat. I could be completely wrong.
Hey when you are doing urban exploration you should always wear some type of respirator because of mold and other potentially hazardous fumes. The rule is if you can smell it, you are breathing it. I only mention this because you mentioned smelling mold and it could have been any of a thousand hazardous strains. Black mold gets all of the attention but there are a ton of others that can cause problems. Just be aware and try to take precautions. Also do not use the painter's masks because they do not catch mold spores.
Right? Some of that looked like black mold. I caught myself holding my breath in PetSmart.
Dont forget long pants, close-toed shoes, a long-sleeved shirt/jacket/sweater, and disposable gloves to cover your full body and keep anything from touching your skin, even if the mold itself isn't as harmful to the skin as it is to the lungs.
I can't think of a better site to build a jail and government offices. We should move congress there.
more like the first 'family'
A jail would be perfect.
Why? You'd take Trumps kids over Obama's? Or their wives?..?@Darkman 70
Agreed, Ed J!! The silver lining in this clusterfuck of a dark cloud!
Ed j oh wow so edgy
Thanks Vinny
Think Mario can salvage this building if he just flips it to 2d
I don’t think the pure hearts can save this one
An abandoned Wal Mart sinking into the landfill it was built atop... what a suitable metaphor for the American dream.
This location was Walmart Supercenter store#3326: 5638 Transportation Blvd Garfield Heights, OH 44125 (just in case you want to look it up)
Cool
Ohio. That explains it.
Sarah Rose Fuck ohio
@@WolfxQueen89 Good...Good...Let the hate flow through you...
Fuck Ohio.
@@WolfxQueen89 Not my Fault your State is the laughing stock of the Nation. You all have clearly never heard of turn signals or Education for that matter.
i wonder how many walmart products are in the landfill under the walmart haha
Good one
Walmart is predumpster.
Maybe there is an old Kmart or Circuit City under the Walmart. What irony.
I saw circuit city on the sign! R.I.P circuit city:(
5:41 I love that bank sign "Baking our way... Day and Night"
It's crazy how far people will take a prank for clickbait views.... this guy literally built an entire shopping center and vandalized it just for views....the nerve of some people....
Gamal Attiah 🤣
@Priscilla Nicole Cuellar-Rocha He did not do that, do you know how much money it was cost just for this "prank"
r/woooosh
@@jacobblotkamp8412 I was waiting for someone to comment that lol
That really made me laugh lol.
The Wal-mart commercial at the end was a wonderfully mocking finish.
I can't understand how preliminary soil sampling - which is usually mandatory before construction begins with such large structures - couldn't see this. Unless it was never done.
Id be willing to bet it closed due to monetary reasons. They knew if they had the methane relief pipes
They did do the samples and they were fine but the construction process stirred it up and began the problem
They are supposed to but, unfortunately it doesn’t always happen that way.
When everything is contracted out and engineers, managers, and builders refrain from clear and effective communication with accurate data this is the result. Not just the Wal-Mart way; the American way!
Even if the soil samples were fine, you don't need to be an expert to predict that even if the building foundations are sound, the surrounding land would drop like this as things rotted down and the methane escapes. Its like the people who okayed this lacked any basic knowledge of physics.
Apparently there are plans to redevelop this place as a business park. What the hell goes through the minds of these people!? This is NOT a place you "redevelop". This is a place you demolish and move on. Its going to have the same issues as before, so why even bother?
Option A: Destroy it or just leave it and go build LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE. Or...
Option B: Try to make building on a garbage dump work.
Why do these developers keep trying to go with B?? Do they like wasting money?
Strangely there is another abandoned Walmart only 15 away in Bedford Ohio. I remember visiting my mom at work at Garfield Heights middle school and when the wind was right you could smell that place a mile away. And are we sure it's a Superfund site? Nothing on EPA website as a current former or propose npl site.
I'm browsing that part of Ohio on Gmaps. Looks like there's a lot of abandoned structures in that area. Meadowbrook Heights Mall, Randall Square... Man, a lot of good places to learn defensive driving. Where I live all we have is a mall parking lot, and half of it is still used all day.
wild bill that spooked me cause I live in Bedford UK
@@FurryWrecker911 well Meadowbrook has a closed Walmart. Randall mall is now an Amazon hub.
Bedfords abandoned shopping mall Meadowbrook is just that.. abandoned. It was built on good land. After Target and Walmart moved, everything else went with it.
@@y-mefarm4249 Walmart was "shrinkaged" to death. And Walmart killed Target.
That Walmart needs a go kart track.. Lol
Corkoth55 or rc indoor track.
Yep. Just what u need in an explosive methane filled space. Internal combustion engines.
Or a skatepark!!!
@@johnstevens1192 Electric go karts exist, there's actually a growing number of indoor electric tracks around the world that operate year round. Way more torque than a gas motor too, since it all kicks in at one.
They can turn this place into a go kart/skate park
Is it me, or are the P.A. systems still working in this place? It feels like I can faintly hear music being piped out of the speakers.
I was hearing the same thing.
😒 he adds that in later
COUGHdanbellCOUGH
It's very eerie...
it's called a e s t h e t i c s
So EPA gives developers the okay to build on the landfill but when problems happen EPA decides to fine the developers? Why am I not surprised.
wow what a mess that place was. nice video jake! always enjoy seeing the places you take us.
Thank you!
Some shady business dealings all around with this shopping center. Somebody thought they were getting some cheap land, the contractors made their money, the investors got the hose. The EPA gave the green light? That's a savage loss.
RESPIRATOR NOW. GAS MASK SOMETHING. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS MY DUDE.
Ok, the music still playing on the speakers is just fucking eerie. Nice place for a horror flick.
The engineering team behind this site's development needs a good, hard kick in the ass.
This is just unacceptable. "What a mess" indeed.
Great video, by the way =D
Who’s drunk idea was to built a store on a landfill
Timothy White a rich man who only thought about short term profits.
It’s actually very common but has to be done correctly.
@@watershed44 exactly Jews are money green....
Grocery store Filipinos are Butterfinger yellow
And liquor store Indians are slim jim red.... 😐 Wtf
It’s been done successfully in the past. The massive Palisades Center in Nyack, NY was built on a landfill in the late 90s and has remained structurally sound to this day.
If you read his comment again you'll find his last name is white :) Nejati was replying to Timothy simply saying a rich man only thought of short term progress rather than the long term :/
Remember Love Canal? I don't know if that was the first ever, but it was the first that made big news and had strong public response. A whole neighborhood had many cancer cases happening and after a while neighbors began realizing they weren't the only ones with cancers showing up, many in the neighborhood also were fighting cancer. Children and adults. The answer was found that the neighborhood was build on landfill and was laden with cancer causing chemicals.
They are still doing this horrible practice. Whenever I am asked to donate to breast cancer causes I say I want equal money dedicated to cleaning up the environment - air, water and land . The cancer rate would come down drastically. When I was 20 years old one in 20-25 women got diagnosed with breast cancer. Now it is one in 4 or worse. Prevention would save many women, many mothers, grandmothers, sisters and wives. The loss is too unbearable.
Considering Boomer exposure to radiation from nuclear atmospheric testing in the late '40s and '50s, I'm surprised that the cancer rate is as low as it is... not to mention the additives used to flavor, color and preserve food since the '40s, and THEN the toxic dump sites.