For instance, the city prepared the New London Mills site, a former linoleum factory.
A linoleum factory, owned by Courtaulds, which had been the town's principal employer, closed in May 1980 after a large fire destroyed much of the building.
The 24-acre project will rise on the site of a former linoleum factory that has been vacant for more than a decade.
The first linoleum factory in America, it even had its own company town, Linoleumville.
His father, originally from Lanarkshire, was a manager in a linoleum factory who wrote crime fiction under the name of Alan Graham and invented a machine for cutting sheets of material.
Haworth's introduction to chemistry came through the linoleum factory in Chorley, Lancashire, which his father managed.
Filming took place over a two-day period in March 1969 in a disused linoleum factory at Staines, England.
What gives these stories of egg candlers and idiots, charlatan rabbis, frozen food salesmen and assistant bookkeepers at linoleum factories their power?
Times were so tough that laid-off workers came begging at their door when the local linoleum factory closed down.
Among the industries established there at the time were a guano factory, a linoleum factory, a cement factory, a pot and pan factory, and a lard processing plant.