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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by paulmd on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:44AM (#16359324)
Airports usually suffer heavy contamination from fuel dumping and exhaust, so it's not really somewhere you'd want to build a home. Normally these get turned into garbage dumps or similar usage, to reclaim it you'd need to scrape off a good chunk of topsoil for miles around.
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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by Symbiote on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:18AM (#16359602)
Land in London would be reclaimed, some fresh soil is a tiny cost compared to the value.
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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by syncsynchalt on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:53AM (#16359888)
In Denver we have two successful neighborhoods built on old airports: Stapleton and Lowry.

This is a place where land is cheap and sprawl is common, so the cost can't have been prohibitive.

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