Bike manufacturer SRAM bought a unique storage building in Chicago. It was formerly a ten-story freezer for Chicago’s Fulton Market District. All that freezer space had to be defrosted before it could be used for anything else!
After decades of use, the building literally had to be defrosted like an old freezer. See the Time Lapse Video (courtesy of Sterling Bay Companies.) At the: 24 second mark, you can see the large propane heaters brought in to accelerate the melting process.
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(Image credit: Gary R. Jensen, courtesy of Sterling Bay Companies)
It's like a frozen winter wonderland cave!
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Ten stories of it ...made me wonder what climbing the stairs was like.
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So, that would be air conditioned storage then? Very good.
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The Rainier Cold Storage building in Seattle was thawed out, and the permafrost that had developed under it for more than 100 years melted and the building became so unstable (brick construction), that it had to be torn down.
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I bet you could shoot some great movie scenes in there.
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