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Re:How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of th... by Mountain_Skies on Sunday March 31, 2024 @04:58AM (#39882598)
The destruction of 'Cadillac Heights' in Robocop 3 was a part of downtown Atlanta scheduled to be razed to make way for Centennial Olympic Park. Worked out good for both sides.
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Re:How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of th... by yterdy on Sunday March 31, 2024 @10:15AM (#39884482)
That's one way of putting it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/29/olympics-i...

COP displaced 30,000 people (though, I suppose it's not as bad as Seoul, where over 700k people lost their homes due to Olympics redevelopment).

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Re:How the California forest that was Endor in 'Return of th... by bobthepanda on Sunday March 31, 2024 @12:40PM (#39885751)
Beijing allegedly relocated 1.5M in 2008.
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