Just drove past the Sand Lake Road side of the property and it was good too see a bunch of workers installing infrastructure for the back of house stuff going in over there.
Every time I look at the site I marvel at the amount of fill dirt they added on the property. Along Sand Lake the level of the finished property is 6-8 feet higher than the roadway (which was raised as part of the rebuild of the road). Does anyone know was this raise in the land simply flood protection since it's so close to Shingle Creek and possibly subject to flooding, or was this part of the land remediation to bury the contaminants from Lockheed's test site, or a combination of both? I remember that when Universal first owned that land they were supposed to be doing a lot of remediation to make it developable, I just don't know how much was completed before they sold it.
The apartments built on other parts of the site don't seem have done any elevation changes or removal or capping of the existing soil, and according to the maps the one map one of the new apartment complexes was built on a "Pershing Plume" which I'm assuming had to do with a Pershing Missile test (built by Martin Marietta, previous name of Lockheed
MGM-31 Pershing - Wikipedia ) and fuel or explosive material spilled and contaminating the soil.