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Comrades visited Steelworkers Park and walked through the surrounding land to scout the area where the Quantum campus is scheduled to be constructed. This report back is based on two scouts. Go and see for yourself.
Steelworkers Park is a public city park: folks are on walks with their dogs, fishing, climbing, and birdwatching. There’s free parking, DIVY bikes, and community work days. A cop car was present in the cul-de-sac of the entrance/parking/exit, like at many public parks. Rainbow Beach is further north, another public park with several parking lots. It would be a manageable distance to bike from.
There are traffic cameras at the 87th and LSD intersection and some above the parking area for the park. No other cameras were spotted throughout the land at the time of writing [mid April 2025].
The land specifically designated for the first phase of the construction of the Quantum base is directly south of the Steelworkers Park entrance. It butts up against the west side of the park and continues south towards US Army Corps of Engineers signs (looks like piles of rocks mostly tbh). This land is surrounded with a 5.5 ft fence. There are gates at several points which are locked, but there are a number of places where the fence has been damaged (notably on the north side there’s a giant rock that opens the space). It is also climbable. “No Trespassing” signs are nearly entirely absent. One was seen along with a US Army Corps of Engineers sign at the very westernmost fence near a gated entrance along LSD.
This lot varies in appearance; some areas have waist-height grass, some areas have denser trees, some of it is almost cleared. There are construction cones and little marking flags throughout, but it is not clear whether these are new or leftover from the past. There’s a bunch of trash, including two human-abandoned, bee-busy beehives. There are multiple “well testing” spots throughout. There are a number of gravel / dirt roads at various locations as well. There was a truck with a drill parked on one of these dirt roads. No workers were seen; unclear if the truck is there long term or what.
There’s a smaller fenced in area with a taller fence (~10ft) with barbed wire. The gate however is wide open. There’s a caterpillar sitting near this area, also unclear how long it’s been sitting.
It does not look like construction has started nor that there is elevated surveillance at this time. Keep watch, take risks. Fight against Quantum. Fight for the lake, the beavers, South Shore, for privacy and autonomy, for ur lovers and friends.
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