The last scrap yard in the District closes to make room for stadium
By Amanda Abrams
Dec. 22, 2015
Washington Post
"The incessant hum of activity at Super Salvage has finally slowed, and the towering piles of metal that once reached as high as three stories have shrunk to almost nothing. The giant cranes — dipping and rising like hulking beasts — are still there, but soon they’ll go quiet, too.
After more than 60 years in Southwest Washington’s Buzzard Point neighborhood, the District’s last metal scrap yard is clearing out to make way for a soccer stadium. On Oct. 27, the city finalized a deal to buy Super Salvage’s acre of land for almost $16 million, and the company has to be gone by Christmas. Two or three years from now, that property, together with several mostly vacant neighboring parcels, will be a 13-acre stadium complex for D.C. United, the District’s major-league soccer team.
“This was my bread and butter,” said Steven Middlethon, president of Super Salvage, which began shutting down operations in November. He owns two other scrap yards, in Southern Maryland, and is in the process of finding a new site just over the D.C. border in the state. But he isn’t happy about leaving the District. “It’s benefited me because there’s a lot of demolition, a lot of construction, going on in the D.C. area, and we’ve been right in the center of all that..."
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