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Would it kill them to make the place a bit nicer? Why does it have to be in the middle of a parking lot? I'm not really getting nice and fun vibes from a parking lot...
They put together a business plan and started with a $1m loan, backed by their parents,
Must be nice to have those kinds of bootstraps.
Why does this seem so much grosser than just a public pool? Like, same water, same people, same everything but it just seems like there way more petri dish vibes here.
I'll wash my homeless balls in there, that's why
The photo is AI.
Combining the image of a swimming pool and a mall, the first thing that popped into my mind was some of the backroom variants.
The airport generated photo is totally misleading. This is about swim schools, not recreational pools like the photo. A totally different experience.
Also, all of these swim schools have indoor pools, again the photo is just slop and confuses the whole article.
I don't know what percentage is in parking lots versus in buildings, but once you leave the south, those pools are IN BUILDINGS in the strip malls so they can generate revenue year round. Note the article shows examples of inside pools, and that works better for harsher weather.
2 to $3 billion dollar industry huh? They either are already or are about to start lobbying to shut down all public pools aren't they?
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