There's a Sands Casino where the Bethlehem Steel Corp. once stood. The casino was completed in 2009, just 8 years after the 100-year-old steel company filed bankruptcy. Ironically, the biggest obstacle facing the casino's developer was a shortage of structural steel. Even more ironically, the developer ended up buying it from Nucor Corp., the onetime "minimill" competitor that Bethlehem executives scoffed at decades earlier for the startup's embrace of electric arc furnace technology.
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Originally published on CTE: 2018-03-14
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/news/losing-my-religion/
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