I live in Houston, where we have never had zoning. As a result, there seems to be quite a few old gas/service stations in residential neighborhoods. What I’ve been seeing lately whenever “regentrification” comes into some of the old prewar neighborhoods is some entrepreneurs remodeling one of these old stations into a…

Five years of Manhattan office space?

This has been my exact“if I won the lottery, I want to do something good with it” idea for years.

A local church did something like this for a while. They had bought the abandoned high school across the road that also had a bus garage, and one member of the church, who was a retired service mechanic, used the space to…

This looks like the perfect spot to move Jalopnik HQ. The cost of buying the property and restoring the building (or at least making it safe/clean) is probably less than five years’ worth of office space rental in Manhattan, so it should pay for itself pretty quickly, and it’s RAD. 

The Forza Horizon series has taught me that there is most certainly several million dollars worth of very rare vintage racecar in the small shed that can be restored in an impossibly short amount of time. 

I actually thought of this the last time I went to Picknpull- the self serve wrecking yard workout-carry the tools- balance on the ice- break the rusted bolts- yank on the parts- then the final part- sneak them out of the yard

I was actually in contact with a guy in my area who was trying to do exactly that. We both loved the idea of it, but it also took quite a lot of legal hurdles to get anywhere. Then there was the problem of securing a location and equipment. We were also trying to partner with an employment agency that specifically…

Yeah, I love preservation of old buildings, but it helps if (a) they had some architectural or historical merit to begin with and (b) they aren’t quite so far along the carbon cycle as this one.

Pretty sure I’ve contracted asthma and tetanus from just looking at these pictures.

CROSSFIT GYM!

I have this dream of putting together a car charity/ministry. We’d buy old cars on Craigslist, fix them up, then connect with local organizations to get them to people who need a reliable car for a year or two. People getting out of prison, human trafficking victims, struggling single moms, recovering addicts, etc. In…

Looking at its delipidated nature (and inevitable rust in the building) you could just gift it to David Tracy

It would almost certainly need costly environmental impact surveys at least, and likely substantial excavation and remediation to that effect as well. CP. 

I’d shove a couple of cots in it, and then register it on Air BnB as an authentic serial killer experience weekend.

where do you source your ethically made cell phones and computer parts to comment on a website that utilizes chinese-american economic advantages?

Assuming you buy everything made in America? They never do any bad things....

If I were a baby boomer, I could make a statement that the problem with the current generation is that they don’t have any ethics at all. They are just dumb, fat, ignorant consumers that get all of the information they care to from memes and headlines. Your generation is about as able to run a marathon as they are…

Yep. Because that commenter, like 99% of the rest of us here, can’t afford a $150,000 car. 

It’s a Swedish car that is assembled in China. Don’t confuse this with native-Chinese car brands. And if the country of assembly bugs you that much, you might as well throw out 90% of the stuff you own and embrace the Amish life.

If you’re speaking for political reason, then yeah, sure.