buildings began to crumble and decay - until one day, Cassilly had the idea to change up the landscape to a place of obscure projects.
Bob Cassilly saw more than just cement and ruins. He saw history, art, architecture, and evolution. In a 2000 interview, Bob said: “They talk about historic districts and stuff like that but one of the main things is, our architecture is basically copying stuff from Europe. "But our industry, it’s kind of like jazz, it’s an American, original thing.
Why not look at it for what it is? It’s impressive. it might be threatening, but you can’t help but be impressed by it.”His ultimate goal was to create an art amusements park but everything took a turn when there was an accident on the building site.
Cassilly was tragically run down by a bulldozer and killed on the building site of Cementland on September 26, 2011. He was 61 years old.
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