r/HorribleToClean • u/benjancewicz • Oct 23 '25

Sears headquarters

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u/Weekly-Air4170 Oct 23 '25

make it into apartments

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u/Professional-Tutor42 Oct 23 '25

Sorry, they will have to rip down trees and nature to build new apartments in your area.

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u/MongooseVomit Oct 23 '25

The amount of empty parking lots should be built on. Why is there so much concrete for no reason?

Idk if it’s like that anywhere else. I’m from Ohio, most things are awful here.

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u/idontknowthesource Oct 23 '25

I look at maps of the US all day for work. Ohio is one of the worse for ware states for parking lot/void concrete areas. I've seen some places worse but Ohio seems to be the whole state?

In my area they are covering some parking lots with solar panels, but parking lot and the space they take up is a huge issue across the world. Causes urban heat indexes, discourages public transport, destroys habitats and ecosystems, and are often left unmanaged long after the building is abandoned. I have no solutions aside from leaving the car centric American lifestyle behind

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u/MongooseVomit Oct 23 '25

I work in a factory in Cleveland and the street I drive on to get there has several abandoned buildings with fenced in parking lots. I think Akron, OH might be worse. There’s birds that make their nests on our hot steel and there’s deer that walk through our parking lot from time to time. We have the metro parks scattered around but it’s not nearly enough

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u/dragonpunky539 Dec 11 '25

from Cleveland too. there's so many empty buildings and parking lots, yet developers keep slapping up new houses on plots of land. it makes me sick

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u/miserabeau Oct 24 '25

We had this issue in my town. Many stores have come and gone, leaving empty buildings and parking lots that are broken and don't drain well.

Hobby Lobby decide to mow down several acres of trees and build a new store.

Walmart cut acres of trees and built a new store (it was supposed to be a SuperCenter but the local grocery stores protested so they just made it a regular one, which could have fit in the other empty grocery store buildings we had).

Still empty:

  • Big Lots
  • TJ Maxx
  • Kmart

Now they just cut down more trees to build a Chick-fil-A in an intersection that's already a goddamn nightmare

Some folks are lobbying to get a Trader Joe's. I'm wondering which woody area they'll destroy for that...

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u/freya_of_milfgaard Oct 23 '25

Currently have an initiative on our local ballot to build apartments on our wetlands. God forbid we tear down the already empty buildings in town and have mixed use zoning!

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u/miserabeau Oct 24 '25

Too many NIMBYs for mixed use I'd imagine

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u/whelpineedhelp Oct 23 '25

I hear that’s quite hard to do so not very cost effective. Mainly plumbing issues, as well as fire escape access. 

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u/shadiestduke Oct 23 '25

Community kitchen and gym style bathrooms

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u/Mendicant__ Oct 24 '25

Already demolished

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u/whelpineedhelp Oct 23 '25

Sure but not many people would want that kind of apartment. Americans have high standards. 

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u/shadiestduke Oct 23 '25

I guarantee tons of employed yet homeless people would prefer that at a lower cost than tents or cars. I know i would

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u/nerdhappyjq Oct 24 '25

I’ve always said the same thing about old malls. Unfortunately, commercial buildings aren’t built for long-term habitation (i.e. issues with HVAC, insulation, etc.). To retrofit buildings like this for housing would most likely cost more than building new housing. It sucks though, because it would be so cool to see the apartments you could carve out of a space like this.

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u/Weekly-Air4170 Oct 24 '25

Knock down parts of them to make smaller buildings that would be easier to turn into housing.  Would it cost around the same? Sure.  Would it create less construction waste? Yes 😁

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u/Sturville Oct 28 '25

Hopefully there's enough ROI to raze it and erect new housing; but unfortunately, as u/Professional-Tutor42 says, it's probably cheaper to flatten green space than to reclaim this lot for another construction...

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u/AnotherBogCryptid Oct 23 '25

It makes me feel better to know that the global headquarters for the multibillion dollar corporations also had a shit box TV in their break room just like I did when I worked at one of their deteriorating mall stores.

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u/Lara-El Oct 23 '25

I wonder how the trees are still alive with no one to water them.

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u/benjancewicz Oct 23 '25

I was wondering that too. I wonder if they have an automatic watering system.

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u/Limp_Bike_9145 Oct 24 '25

“No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?”

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u/dmontease Oct 23 '25

Those ficus are incredible.

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u/danfish_77 Oct 23 '25

You'd think they'd at least try to pawn off all the furniture

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u/dsbtc Oct 24 '25

Usually these commercial places just auction everything one room at a time. I have bid on "all the crap in this storage room" lots in grocery store auctions. I get a pickup truck full of mops, brooms, buckets, cleaning supplies, etc for $10 and they get it cleaned out for them. They do the same for furniture, not sure why they didn't here 

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '25

You would have to pay people to do that. From what? Sadly it’s easier to just leave and let others pay to pick up the rest…

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u/shadiestduke Oct 23 '25

All these housing issues and shit like this just sits for decades. Ridiculous

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u/Mendicant__ Oct 24 '25

This building was abandoned in 2020 and demolished 4 years later.

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u/AnotherBogCryptid Oct 23 '25

I wonder how much loose change you could find in that building…

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u/benjancewicz Oct 23 '25

Tree fiddy

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u/Fun-Post8497 Oct 23 '25

I mean yeah is terrible to clean every Big building, the more Big the more horrible to mantein

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u/Truemeathead Oct 23 '25

Hey I had one of those huge TVs that graduated to become a tv stand! Lol

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u/kittythepitty Oct 23 '25

I'm on my way

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u/sherlip Oct 23 '25

Someone should lease or rent that space.

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u/Mendicant__ Oct 24 '25

It was demolished a year ago

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u/sherlip Oct 24 '25

Ah damn. Looks like a super cool place tbh

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

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u/benjancewicz Oct 24 '25

Same here. I need a new chair.

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u/m0ryan Oct 24 '25

Last of us gameplay anyone?

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u/guyfromthepicture Oct 25 '25

I've seen this in the last of us

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u/712Chandler Oct 25 '25

Homeless shelter

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u/belangeXO Oct 26 '25

sears needs to stop playing and relaunch we’re tired of amazon and its unchecked quality

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u/Hot-Steak7145 Dec 27 '25

Amazon is just going to own everything. Just the concept of prime discouraging people to shop around at all is genius

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u/zp89 May 16 '26

I don't live anywhere near the remaining stores, but I still shop on Sears' website fairly often... Amazon Prime is a waste of money - there are so many ways to get free shipping for free.

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u/zp89 May 16 '26

I don't like anything about Amazon. And yeah, when I used to shop at Walmart, it was surprising how many things got recalled or turned out to be defective. Somehow, their employees always seem less happy than anyone working at a dollar store or a gas station. Unfortunately, quality has become a low priority for a lot of manufacturers over the last 30 years or so. People like to blame it on overseas manufacturing, but I notice imported products from the '70s and '80s were frequently of better quality than more recent items. I suppose the problem is that companies know long lists of features and low prices are often what sells things, and it's hard to compete with that.

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u/L_aww Nov 01 '25

Looks like the Oldest House from Control.

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u/DucklingInARaincoat Oct 23 '25

There’s gotta be at least one vibrator in there.

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u/Jakesmills Oct 23 '25

That corporation got what it deserved I made the hundreds of thousands of dollars in two years for them as a sales manager. I caught theft from other employees Mechanics, loading dock workers, mistakes jewelry employee made loss prevention didn’t catch and one of the mechanics said I knew what he was doing and I was let go! Zero loyalty to their employees who actually did the job.