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Retired 2000 by BMW for continued industrial use (Mini assembly, Plant Oxford).", "why": "Strategy listed as 'redevelop' but new use matches original industrial function. No change in primary use noted.", "where_it_stands": "Located in Cowley, UK. 3.6km from Clarendon Shopping Centre (under construction), 3.7km from Westgate Shopping Centre (status unknown).", "for_a_planner": ["No retail context provided beyond nearby shopping centres (status unknown for one).", "Industrial use maintained since 1926 with 2000 retrofit."], "for_a_developer": ["No vacant space or new-use opportunity indicated (same industrial use).", "Retrofit year 2000 suggests long-term operational stability."], "risks_and_unknowns": ["Strategy 'redevelop' contradicts unchanged use; unclear why listed as such.", "Westgate Shopping Centre status unknown (affects local context assessment).", "No data on current occupancy or production scale."], "data_quality": "partial", "one_line": "Industrial site maintained since 1926; 2000 retrofit by BMW for same use (Mini assembly), no retail context provided.", "model": "qwen3-30b-a3b-64k:latest", "machine": "Dell 5820 RTX 3090 (Ollama, qwen3-30b-a3b)", "record_sha1": "3a643a310964"}, "cluster": {"within_10km": [{"id": "m-8da0021719", "name": "Clarendon Shopping Centre", "city": "Oxford", "status": "under construction", "km": 3.6}, {"id": "m-6925a932b3", "name": "Westgate Shopping Centre, Oxford", "city": "Oxford", "status": "unknown", "km": 3.7}], "count_10km": 2, "count_25km": 3}, "peers": {"peers": [{"id": "n-42049d8fe9", "name": "New Street Works", "city": "Chelmsford", "state": null, "score": 5.5, "why": ["opened 1920", "same strategy: redevelop"]}, {"id": "n-2e8a724f11", "name": "Stapleton International Airport", "city": "Denver", "state": "CO", "score": 5.0, "why": ["opened 1929", "same strategy: redevelop"]}, {"id": "n-4ff28baa63", "name": "Greenwood Municipal Airport (Old)", "city": "Greenwood", "state": "MS", "score": 5.0, "why": ["opened 1931", "same strategy: redevelop"]}, {"id": "n-eba6eaeb34", "name": "Hatfield Aerodrome", "city": "Hatfield", "state": null, "score": 5.0, "why": ["opened 1930", "same strategy: redevelop"]}, {"id": "n-e838682180", "name": "First \"posto de gasolina\" of South America", "city": "Santos", "state": null, "score": 5.0, "why": ["opened 1920", "same strategy: redevelop"]}, {"id": "n-5981a97a73", "name": "Weeks Field", "city": "Fairbanks", "state": "AK", "score": 5.0, "why": ["opened 1923", "same strategy: redevelop"]}], "method": "size, era, strategy, status, type, state, distance"}}, "elements": [{"slug": "era-retrofit-2000s", "name": "Retrofit 2000s", "group_": "era", "evidence": "2000", "origin": "newtypes-extraction"}, {"slug": "strategy-redevelop", "name": "Redeveloped", "group_": "strategy", "evidence": "BMW's Mini is assembled, known as Plant Oxford", "origin": "record"}, {"slug": "use-logistics", "name": "Logistics and industrial", "group_": "use", "evidence": "new_use field", "origin": "newtypes-extraction"}, {"slug": "era-opened-1920s", "name": "Opened 1920s", "group_": "era", "evidence": "1926", "origin": "newtypes-extraction"}], "details": {}, "photos": [], "provenance": {"year_opened": "newtypes-extraction", "original_developer": "newtypes-extraction", "status": "newtypes-extraction", "after_notes": "newtypes-extraction", "year_retrofit": "newtypes-extraction", "developer": "newtypes-extraction"}, "restricted_fields": {"parcels": ["owner_addr", "assessed", "taxable", "tax_amount", "sale_price", "deed_ref"], "deals": ["price", "price_per_acre", "price_per_sqft", "loan_amount", "asking_price"], "how": "free API key: POST /api/v1/keys {\"email\": …}"}}