
Episode 124: Berlin-Brandenburg Airport
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Soviet Block Collapses
In the early 2000s, Berlin becomes a place that people want to come. People start to take the easy jet and the Ryan air to go to the nightclubs in the deindustrialized parts of East Berlin. And then there was a ballot initiative that was passed overwhelmingly which says that you're not allowed to build any permanent structures on the field at all or take anything off. So all of the hangers are there rotting. All of the old airplane things are still there. During the 2016 refugee crisis they were using this for refugee housing. The eventual plan is to make this a big art center. It's got a bathroom. But the worst people in the world still want to develop it
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