Loading Bay Inside the Former Superior Plating Factory
Taken April 2013
Superior Plating operated an electroplating factory in the Northeast Minneapolis warehouse district before closing in 2013 amid a cyanide contamination cleanup. The empty loading bay still holds its concrete floor, overhead piping, and brick walls stained from decades of industrial use.
Taken April 2013
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