With rapidly escalating fuel costs for heating, transportation, and airconditioning, rising interest rates, and limited credit availabilty all likely to last for the foreseeable future, the population boom of McMansions and runaway subarban sprawl is over. In a very short time, we will be longing for the good days of 4$ per gallon and 6% 30 year mortgage rates.
I read a serious discussion recently as to what might be done with the expected widespread vacant and unmarketable outer McMansion developments. Maybe they can be bulldozed and trapfields or other shooting facilities built.
I shoot sporting clays at a range built in an old quarry and factory complex where targets at some stations appear through windows in half fallen walls and at others fly in between tall brick chimneys. A relic of an earlier economy serves a new purpose. With a little imagination, abandoned McMansion developments might lend themselves to something similar.
Last edited by vangulil; 07/01/08 12:00 AM.
