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Example: [Collected via e-mail, July 2015]More than 1,000 people spend their workdays in an industrial park housed in an excavated mine the size of 140 football fields. As Bloomberg reports, the underground industrial park known as SubTropolis opened for business in 1964 in an excavated mine below Kansas City, Mo. attracting tenants with the lure of lower energy costs and cheap rents... Origins: On 4 February 2015, Bloomberg published an article titled Welcome to SubTropolis: The Massive Business Complex Buried Under Kansas City, subtitled More than 1,000 people spend their workdays in SubTropolis, an industrial park housed in an excavated mine the size of 140 football fields. The article (and the compelling photograph set that accompanied it) swiftly made its way onto the e-mail circuit, with many intact copies circulating in a Did you know? format. (The Subtropolis images and much of the article's text also got aggregated piecemeal to viral fact-of-the-day sites.) SubTropolis is indeed a genuine underground industrial complex in Kansas City, Missouri, as the Bloomberg profile explained: A 2010 Atlantic profile stated that SubTropolis came about in the 1960s as a by-product of mining operations: At the time of the 2010 article, the magazine claimed (as Bloomberg did, five years later) that 10% of Kansas City's industrial real estate is located underground.
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