There are massive, and I mean massive, warehouses being built all along the I81 corridor in Maryland & PA, The majority of these, if not all of them, are sitting empty and unrented but more keep getting built! The County Commissioners in Wash Co MD said they couldn't do anything to stop these companies from building and were sued when they tried to stop it. Does anyone know what's going on with all of these empty warehouses?
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Find out who owns the land. Maybe you'll come across some clues.
Arrive around lunch time. If you see construction workers taking a break, chat them up and ask what's going on. Building purpose, owners, etc. A lot of times they know things. I've gotten a lot of sales leads by doing this.
EDIT: I will mention this....Amazon is effectively trying to re-make the distribution of their goods across the last mile. They think the job can be done for even less than USPS with their huge subsidy (or maybe they think that subsidy is going away soon). It's dirt cheap to start a distribution center - like $10k. But if you really want to make big money you need to be able to process and deliver a lot of orders. 60 miles as the crow flies from Chambersburg PA is about 3 million people.
We already has numerous Amazon warehouses operating in our area. The commissioner that we spoke to said they anticipate growth. To begin with our current roads wouldn't support the amount of traffic that would be generated if just one of these places was fully leased out.
My place of employment has worked on some of the construction for these and they are labeled as data centers on the permits and plans.
Maybe mining coins???