kshanken
Conference
10 steel cylinders sit rusting away. The Great North Sugar Mill in Longmont, Colorado sits abandoned; yet it is always in motion and changing. The walls have transformed into gallery space as urban artists explore the space and leave their visions behind. In the early 1900’s, as many as 600 workers filled the plant as it ran around the clock. The beet sugar industry quickly became very profitable. Decades later though, the outlook had turned as the sugar market became oversaturated. In 1977, the Longmont Sugar factory closed forever. Now the factory sits as a toxic decaying ruin. Inside this very deteriorated building, walls have fallen down, floors have collapsed, and anything salvageable has been removed. Bags of asbestos lay throughout the site alongside pools of PCBs. This space has transformed from a bustling workplace to a haven for explorers and artists alike.
Conference
10 steel cylinders sit rusting away. The Great North Sugar Mill in Longmont, Colorado sits abandoned; yet it is always in motion and changing. The walls have transformed into gallery space as urban artists explore the space and leave their visions behind. In the early 1900’s, as many as 600 workers filled the plant as it ran around the clock. The beet sugar industry quickly became very profitable. Decades later though, the outlook had turned as the sugar market became oversaturated. In 1977, the Longmont Sugar factory closed forever. Now the factory sits as a toxic decaying ruin. Inside this very deteriorated building, walls have fallen down, floors have collapsed, and anything salvageable has been removed. Bags of asbestos lay throughout the site alongside pools of PCBs. This space has transformed from a bustling workplace to a haven for explorers and artists alike.