Superior Plating

12 photos · 2013

12 photographs tagged Superior Plating, 2013.

Abandoned industrial warehouse interior with brick walls, metal pipes, and debris-covered concrete floor at Superior Plating in Minneapolis. — 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.

Interior of the abandoned Superior Plating facility in Minneapolis showing industrial equipment, safety railings, and floor-level infrastructure under artificial lighting. — Superior Plating was a metal finishing plant in Minneapolis that processed parts in chemical baths, including cyanide based solutions used in plating. The building sits abandoned, its tanks, pipes, and hoses still in place along the production floor.

Industrial cargo truck bed loaded with yellow-wrapped materials and marked with cyanide warning labels at Superior Plating facility in Minneapolis. — Superior Plating was a metal finishing plant in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District that closed after decades of operation. Yellow lettering reading "Batch Cyanide" marks a holding tank once used in the plant's electroplating process, where cyanide based solutions helped bond metal coatings to parts. Pipes and valves still run along the tank where workers once managed the chemical batches.

Deteriorated interior of the abandoned Superior Plating facility in Minneapolis showing industrial equipment, exposed structures, and debris-covered floor. — Superior Plating was a metal finishing plant on Spring Street Northeast in Minneapolis before it closed and sat vacant. Inside, a steel crane rail and hoist frame span a loading bay once used to move heavy equipment between work areas.

Minneapolis downtown skyline at dusk viewed from an industrial rooftop with maintenance structures. — This is the downtown Minneapolis skyline viewed from a rooftop in Northeast Minneapolis, across the Mississippi River. The tall tower near the center is the Grain Belt Brewery's former office building area of downtown, with high rise apartment and condo towers that define the city's night profile. The rooftop itself sits atop the former Superior Plating factory building, a shuttered industrial site in Northeast Minneapolis.

Abandoned Superior Plating facility rooftop in Minneapolis at dusk with illuminated structures and industrial equipment. — Superior Plating was an electroplating company in Northeast Minneapolis that closed its doors after decades of operation. The building sat vacant for years, its rooftop gathering debris and graffiti before redevelopment of the site began.

A vintage "Danger High Voltage 13,800 Volts Keep Out" warning sign hangs in an abandoned industrial electrical room in Minneapolis. — A hand painted "Danger, High Voltage, 13,800 Volts, Keep Out" sign hangs beside a bank of meters at the former Superior Plating building in Minneapolis. The company ran an electroplating operation on the site before it closed and sat abandoned, leaving behind its old wiring and warning signs.

Abandoned Superior Plating facility in Minneapolis shows an industrial interior with scattered metal debris and railroad tracks on the floor. — Superior Plating is a shuttered electroplating plant in Northeast Minneapolis. Inside, the old production floor sits littered with scrap pipe, lumber, and rusted equipment left behind after the business closed.

Abandoned Superior Plating facility in Minneapolis shows deteriorated industrial building with exposed metal structures and equipment at night. — Superior Plating was a metal finishing plant in Northeast Minneapolis that closed after decades of operation. The site was later identified for contamination from its plating operations, and the building sat gutted and empty, with debris and rusted equipment left scattered across the factory floor.

Abandoned Superior Plating facility in Minneapolis shows deteriorated industrial equipment and electrical systems. — Superior Plating was a metal plating factory in Minneapolis that closed after operating for decades. The building sat abandoned and gutted, its boiler room left with corroded pipework and an old control panel still mounted on the wall.

A weathered maintenance clipboard on a rusted metal surface in the abandoned Superior Plating facility in Minneapolis. — Superior Plating was a metal finishing plant in Northeast Minneapolis that sat vacant for years before redevelopment. A clipboard notice inside, dated September 9, 2010 and signed by a lab manager, instructs operators on dosing brightener maintenance for a nickel plating tank.

Abandoned Superior Plating industrial facility in Minneapolis showing a deteriorated interior hallway with exposed brick walls. — Superior Plating was a metal finishing company that operated for decades in the Holland neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis before closing and leaving the building vacant.

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