Where the Oil Tanks Used to Be
At first glance, the six-story mass of Destiny USA feels out of place along the edge of Onondaga Lake. Beneath its concrete weight, the ground still remembers what it used to be – a scrapyard boxed in by rusted tanks and stained soil.
Before the glass doors and marble tile, this was Oil City. In 1987, The Pyramid Companies pitched something bigger: retail, where piles of steel and industrial runoff sat for decades…