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Becoming SteelStacks, an arts and entertainment district, the site includes multiple performance venues, plazas and parks with the plant's rusted five blast furnaces were left standing and serve as a backdrop for the new campus. The 1,650 foot trestle turned walkway connects Levitt
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The trestle is located on 10 acres and features five furnaces with the oldest at the western end of the site dating from 1913. In the 1960s, two additional furnaces were razed after years of disuse. Railcars carried coke, limestone, and iron ore along the trestle from the
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to the blast furnaces where their contents were then dropped. In its heyday, each furnace could produce roughly 3,000 tons of iron each day and employed 31,000 people. Metal forged at the location helped construct the
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