
“You first want to go where there’s fresh water and moderate temperatures,” Keenan says. “The Great Lakes for me make a lot of sense. Now, there’re algal blooms in the Great Lakes, and those aren’t easy problems to solve, but if you’ve got your algal loads under control and you manage that appropriately, Buffalo’s going to be an area that I think we’ll see a renewed economic investment because of its long-term capacity to accommodate density.” Many Great Lake cities fit a similar mold: Duluth, Chicago, Cleveland. “Anywhere in the Great Lakes should be OK,” says Keenan.