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Wembley has been generating enormous crowds since 1923, when the original stadium was built as the centerpiece of the British Empire Exhibition. For most of the century that followed, the land around it was treated entirely as crowd infrastructure, including coach parks, surface parking, service roads. By the time the
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The land immediately west of Lambeau Field had never been much. By the time the Packers began buying parcels in the early 2000s, the roughly 34 acres adjacent to the stadium consisted of a gas station, a motel, and a lot of surface parking, the kind of forgettable buffer zone
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The Ohio State Penitentiary, one of the oldest continuously operating maximum security prisons in the country, had sat shuttered and crumbling on prime downtown land since 1984. By the mid-1990s its outer walls were literally dropping debris onto parked cars. The city owned the site and had been courting redevelopment