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I can understand taking over an abandoned mall to make a "Zombie Theme Park" like was done in the UK

http://www.zedevents.co.uk/the-mall/

but 200 acres is pretty big, and outdoors makes everything more complicated.

And decades of dumping. And slum lords. And wild dogs. And squatters. And massive pollution. And peripheral crime. And dodgy-to-nonexistent infrastructure.

People see cheap building sales in Detroit and they don't realize those almost always come with requirements to pay back-taxes, tear down all the structures, decontaminate the grounds, etc.

There are good (read: expensive) reasons that much of Detroit remains abandoned.

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