Aeronaut wrote: if you take an empty factory (doesn’t have to be over 50,000 sq ft) and find a way to locally fund anywhere from 20 to 100 or more clean energy jobs using this building as a charter school/ research center, you will get a LOT of free local TV news coverage to kick off the local debate.
But be aware that, without careful planning and PR, the debate might start with “Company puts nuclear reactor using toxic fuel in local building.”